We've had literally thousands of letters.毫不夸张地说, 我们收到了上千封来信。

I literally crawled to the car.毫不夸张地说, 我是爬到车子那儿的。

A stanza is, literally, a room.节的字面意思是房间。

We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up.我们要使经济处于控制之中, 否则它真的会把我们搞垮的。

It was literally impossible to find a seat.简直不可能找到座位。

If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.如果你告诉一个人“踩上去”或者“把你的外衣扔上去”, 他们可能会按照字面意义理解你的意思, 从而产生灾难性后果。

She sometimes takes literally such phrases as 'I nearly died of fright'.她有时候按照原义理解诸如“我几乎吓死了”那样的短语。

a man who took his instructions literally按照字面意义理解他的指示的人

The Bible's creation story is not to be taken literally.《圣经》中的创世故事是不能按照字面意义理解的。