Mr Knight said that he had resigned for personal reasons.

Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.

成语通常不能用另一种语言逐字翻译.

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A stanza is, literally, a room.

stanza（诗节）的原意为“房间”。

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Until next payday, I was literally without any money.

到下个发薪日前，我真的没有一点儿钱了。

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I look back on it as the bloodiest (though not literally) winter of the war.

我现在回想起来，觉得那是战时最血腥的（但并非字面意义上的）一个冬天。

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And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.

这个国家的大众的确对此毫不在乎.

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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

想像力正是人类草拟所有计划乃至成形的工作场所.

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The event literally stopped the traffic.

这一事件几乎让交通陷于停顿。

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The children were literally starving.

孩子们的确是在挨饿.

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The sentence cannot be literally rendered.

这个句子不能直译.

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Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.

阿尼根本无视我的存在, 因为他是同性恋者.

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Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.

技术正在改变这一切, 它正在劈波斩浪为今日的水下探索者开路.

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The city was literally destroyed.

城市差不多全毁了.

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She literally ran along the path toward the gate.

她真的沿着小路向门奔跑过去.

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Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.

关于它的实质的种种推测,确实已进行了数千年之久.

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These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.

这种克氏鳌虾喜欢生活在污浊的水沟里,它们实在是污水中的“垃圾处理员”.

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She was literally blue with cold.

她真的冷得全身青紫.

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I literally crawled to the car.

我真的是爬到车那边去的。

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Sometimes the street grid would rotate inexplicably on the screen.

有时屏幕上的街道格子会难以解释地旋转.

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Rotate and shift falling figures to form whole rows on the bottom.

移动并旋转方块,使它们在游戏视窗底部排成一整行.

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Insert, rotate, and remove pretzel trays; monitor ovens for correct baking time and product color.

把揉搓好的如意卷放进烤箱 、 旋转和移动如意卷托盘; 控制烤箱温度和如意卷色泽.

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