They can be used in the literal sense of familiarity with something or someone.

它们可以用于表达对某物或某人的熟悉程度。

Or maybe Forks was making me crazy in the literal sense of the word.

要不可能就是福克斯使得我成了真正的疯子了。

Turns out, he was a man of mystery, and in the most literal sense of the word.

事实证明，他是一个神秘的人，他就是神秘本身。

Now you may argue that email is eternal, and in the literal sense you'd probably be right.

你可能会说电子邮件是永恒的，从字面意义上讲，你可能是对的。

Why did they have these very large spaces within their skull? They were airheads in a very literal sense.

为什么它们的颅骨内有那么大空间呢？这可真是脑袋空空呀。

It is a curious fact that on Earth species death is, in the most literal sense, a way of life.

在地球上，说句实在话，物种死亡是一种生活方式。这是个很有意思的事实。

It was hell on Earth, in the literal sense.

从字面上看， 这是人间地狱。

The intention is to be awesome in the literal sense.

意图是在字面意义上令人敬畏。

And around is in the literal sense, is pretty, pretty explanatory.

around 是字面意义上的，非常非常具有解释性。

The first one ... Well, this is a literal sense, is to twist something.

第一个… … 嗯，这是字面意义上的， 就是要扭曲一些东西。

So, like the film title, it doesn't make literal sense but it makes emotional sense.

因此，就像电影标题一样，它没有字面意义，但具有情感意义。

I don't even get what image she's trying to convey, in a literal sense.

我什至不明白她想从字面意义上传达什么形象。

I feel more alive in the most literal sense when I'm done swimming in the cold than I do any other time.

当我在寒冷温度中游泳时，我感觉比任何时候都更有活力。

In a literal sense, our baseball is defined by a collective quantum state resulting from its many atoms.

从字面上看，我们的棒球是由许多原子产生的集体量子态定义的。

To be steamrolled in the literal sense means to be flattened or crushed by something that overpowers you.

被压垮的字面意义是指被某种比你更强大的东西压扁或碾碎。

So, " literally" means " in literal sense, this is what it is" , " it's literally this" , " not exaggerated" . Okay?

所以 literally 的意思是“从字面上看，这就是事实”，“这就是这样”，“没有夸张”。

(Applause) I want to live in a world built by women, and I mean that in the most literal sense.

（掌声）我想生活在一个由女性建立的世界里，我的意思是最字面的意思。

Of course, we don't expect our lives to become adventures in the literal sense that we too will be fighting aliens or becoming pirates.

当然，我们并不期望我们的生活变成字面意义上的冒险，我们也会与外星人战斗或成为海盗。

It might help you to remember the meaning of this phrasal verb, but, actually, we don't usually use stave off in a literal sense anymore.

这会帮助你记住这个动词短语的意思，但实际上，我们通常不再使用字面意义上的 stave off。

This is not true of idioms, which are phrases whose origins are now so obscure that they make no literal sense today.

习语并非如此，这些短语的起源现在如此晦涩，以至于它们在今天没有字面意义。