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literalise

/ˈlɪt.ər.ə.laɪz/

翻译: 指按字面意思来解释或表现某事物;使其字面化,不作引申或比喻理解。

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verb

/ˈlɪt.ər.ə.laɪz/formalbritish已废弃
  • zh指按字面意思来解释或表现某事物;使其字面化,不作引申或比喻理解。

An obsolete verb meaning to interpret or represent something in a literal manner; to make literal.

  1. Make literalC1formalbritish

    To express or interpret something in a literal manner, avoiding figurative or metaphorical meaning.

    zh字面化

    • The translator chose to literalise the poet's metaphors, which lost some of their beauty.
    • In legal contexts, one must often literalise complex clauses to avoid ambiguity.
    • His attempt to literalise the joke made it unfunny.

    同义词concretizeliteralizereify

    反义词embellishimplypersonifysuggest

词形
  • literalised past participle
  • literalised past simple
  • literalising present participle
  • literalises third person singular