literally是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 照字义地, 逐字地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At sixty-one, Gottlieb had saved but a few hundred dollars-- literally a few hundred.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Zossimov, you may not be-lieve me, that question was put literally in those words.
-- A little girl, still younger, dressed literally in rags, stood at the screen, waiting for her turn.
-- I was literally out of my mind.
-- Then all of a sudden she would be disillusioned and would rudely and contemp-tuously repulse the person she had only a few hours before been literally adoring.
-- She had the unfortunate habit of telling literally every-one all our family secrets and continually complaining of me; how could she fail to confide in such a delightful new friend?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own,abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud whenthe tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.
-- Perhaps you know, Miss Trotwood, that there is never a candlelighted in this house, until one's eyes are literally falling out of 607one's head with being stretched to read the paper.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an em-ployment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.
-- The first person he met was poor Liddy, who seemed literally to have dwindled smaller in these few latter hours.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine mine to protect, love, and cherish.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, andAshley was wearing the familiar homespun.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristo-tle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have 125invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby, bending himself at the knees, literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly we would come upon a series of low subterranean tunnels which looked like beaver holes, or the work of foxes--through whose narrow and winding ways we had literally to crawl!
-- I was literally buried alive; with no other expectation before me but to die in all the slow horrible torture of hunger and thirst.
-- I literally panted for breath.
-- There can be no doubt that the entire atmosphere is saturated with electric fluid; I am myself wholly impregnated; my hairs literally stand on end as if under the influence of a galvanic battery.
-- Our ears literally bleed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions, for the lads were not required to sit at table, but allowed to par-take of refreshment as they liked freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
-- Literally this word means Fat-Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer.
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