literal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 文字(上) 的； 字面的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The French document is decidedly the most complete of the three; but it is plain enough that each is the literal translation of the other, for they all contain exactly the same number of lines.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very likely I expressed myself funnily, and I may have looked funny, but, for all that, I believe I understand where honour lies, and what I said was but the literal truth.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus a literal translation of the name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be 'The Tail of the Lake.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, the plain state of the case, Mrs. Micawber,' said Traddles,mildly breaking the truth to her, 'I mean the real prosaic fact, youknow-' 'Just so,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'my dear Mr. Traddles, Iwish to be as prosaic and literal as possible on a subject of so muchimportance.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if he spoke of the delights of the atmosphere of Mr Brass's office in a literal sense, he had certainly a peculiar taste, as it was of a close and earthy kind, and, besides being frequently impregnated with strong whiffs of the second-hand wearing apparel exposed for sale in Duke's Place and Houndsditch, had a decided flavour of rats and mice, and a taint of mouldiness.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they drew into a closer physical intimacy, an intimacy of perversity, when he was a child stricken with an apparent candour and an apparent wonderment, that looked almost like a religious exaltation: the perverse and literal render-ing of: 'except ye become again as a little child'. While she was the Magna Mater, full of power and potency, having the great blond child-man under her will and her stroke en-tirely.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the earlier stages of her existence, she was handed down in a literal and prosaic sense; it being almost a part of the entrance footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college.
-- Mr Sparkler, in absence of mind perhaps in a more literal absence of mind than is usually understood by the phrase had smelt so hard at a sprig in his hand as to be on the verge of the offence in question.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Amy, who was a very literal young lady.
-- 'Tisn't in mine head, it's in mine mouf,' answered literal Demi, putting out his tongue, with a chocolate drop on it, thinking she alluded to confectionery, not ideas.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process.
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