It often happens that certain actions of human life seem, literally speaking, improbable, though actual.

经常发生的是，人类生活中的某些行为，从字面上看，虽然是真实的，但似乎是不可能的。

Literally speaking, living experience is actually nothing more than what you have experienced.

从字面上讲，生活经验其实就是你所经历的。

Most men are sometimes obliged to bear with bodily inconveniences, and to endure, occasionally, the inclemency of the elements; but genteel women are, literally speaking, slaves to their bodies, and glory in their subjection.

大多数人有时不得不忍受身体上的不便，偶尔还要忍受恶劣的天气；但文雅的女人，从字面上来说，是她们身体的奴隶，并以她们的服从为荣。

It is true that in addition I had an intoxication literally speaking, --tobacco, which I smoked in large quantities, and wine, upon which I did not get drunk, but of which I took too much.

的确，从字面上说，我还有一种醉酒——烟草，我抽了很多，还有酒，我没有喝醉，但喝得太多了。

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

男人忽视了男人应尽的职责，却被当作半神来对待；宗教与道德也被一层礼仪的面纱隔开，但人们想知道这个世界几乎是字面意义上的尖锐者或压迫者的巢穴。