Comments on: Literally

by: gzfire

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:26:10 +0000

我今天也注意到了这个词。我觉得有些时候，翻译成“毫不夸张地说”更好。

1，金山词霸有个英英词典的解释是：(intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; “our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war”

2，本期的《60 minutes》也提到了这个词：

When Register wanted to put on breaking news his first week, he says he found his staff was out to lunch, literally. “There was nobody there. The whole newsroom was empty,” he remembers. “Everybody’d gone to lunch. So I’m asking, ‘Well, what is this?’ ‘Well, they take three hour lunches in between programs.’”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/19/60minutes/main4196477.shtml

by: rochelle

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:31:34 +0000

看了很多，觉得获益匪浅，呵呵！

引用了你一篇文章！

by: lei

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:44:54 +0000

有一次听NPR里面谈到Language Pet Peeves，主持人说他最不能忍受别人滥用literally这个词。他说好多人在明明该用figuratively的地方偏偏要用literally，简直是大逆不道！从此我就对literally这个词印象深刻。连带着也学会了pet peeve这个词。赫赫。

Yan:

我在NPR的网站上听过。好像这个节目已经停止更新了？

你不是从Friends赌公寓的那集里学会pet peeve的啊？猜错猜错。