literally
literally /ˈlɪ.tə.ɹə.li/ nghĩa là theo đúng nghĩa đen
Các nghĩa
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theo đúng nghĩa đen
Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.
There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.
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thực sự, đúng là
With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.
Lights were going out. A raid! A raid! It was a panic, literally, in a whorehouse!
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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chơi chữ theo nghĩa đen
Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
Profit and corporate giving are, quite literally, two sides of the same coin.
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thực sự, hết sức
Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
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cực kỳ, vô cùng
Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.
He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
People can't even express their opinions freely in this country any more. Literally 1984!
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chỉ đơn thuần, chỉ là
Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
It's not even hard to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.
Dạng khác
- more literally comparative
- most literally superlative