This, I fear, the author means literally rather than metaphorically, for she seems to see no difference between the elephant and the human mind.
我觉得，作者表达的观点绝非夸张比喻而是认真的，因为她似乎认为大象与人类之间的思维之间没有区别。
Shuilu means literally water and land, They are ritual paintings originally introduced by Buddhism from lndia in the periods of Wei State and Jin dynasty.
水陆画，最早出现在魏晋时期，最初用于佛教水陆道场。
The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".
“文化”这个词来自拉丁语“colere”，字面意思是“培养”。
Generosity literally means willingness in giving away one's own money，time，talent，etc．
慷慨的字面意思是自愿放弃金钱,时间,才智等。
"Geilivable", combining pinyin of Chinese characters Geili (giving strength) with the English suffix for adjectives, literally means "giving power" or "cool".
"将"给力"一词的中文拼音与英语中形容词后缀结合起来，字面意为“真给劲”或“很酷”。
Yoga practitioners have used pranayama, which literally means control of the life force, as a tool for affecting both the mind and body for thousands of years.
几千年来，瑜伽练习者们一直通过调息法（字面意义是控制生命之气）调节心理和身体。
That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better.
那意味着最高水准的人看最不流行的书，而看最流行的书的人各种水准都有。
Thus midwife literally means “with woman” and refers to the fact that this woman called a midwife has the job of being with the mother during her labor and delivery.
因此，字面上midwife意为“和女人在一起”，同时提到一个事实，即被称作midwife的女人，她们的工作是和正在分娩的母亲在一起。
David asked about the word ascribe which literally means “to write.”
大卫询问我ascribe（归于，归功于）的词源。这个词的字面含义是“写”。
The fact that olap4j is literally an extension to JDBC means that you can use infrastructure like connection pools and directory services for olap4j connections just as you would for JDBC connections.
olap4 j差不多可以说是JDBC的扩展，实际上这意味着你可以为olap4 j连接使用连接池、目录服务等基础设施，就像供jdbc连接使用的一样。
The Latin name for great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, literally means "ragged tooth," an understandable moniker.
“大白鲨”，拉丁文写作“Carcharodoncarcharias”，字面上的意思为“参次不齐的牙齿”，从图中的牙齿看来，这名字很好理解。
The shout would go up: ‘Pela cara!’ — which, translated literally, means face-peeler.
叫喊声响了起来：“佩拉卡拉（Pelacara）！” 其字面意思是剥脸皮者（face-peeler）。
Aliyah literally means “ascent”, while leaving Israel is yeridah, “descent”.
“阿利亚”的字面意思是“上升”，而离开以色列则是“耶利达（yeridah）”，意为“下降”。
Pooris are fried, puffy breads made from wheat flour; aamras literally means mango essence.
肉松面包是用小麦粉做的，翼果从字面上的意思是芒果的本质。
When he talks about seeing the sky rolled up like a scroll he means that quite literally.
当他写道，看见天像书卷一样卷起来时,不要以为他用的是比喻手法。
What it means: According to Loewenberg: "When you dream about someone very close to you, human nature is to figure out if the dream is literally about that person."
释义(据娄温伯)：“当你梦到某个非常亲近的人，人性需要弄清楚梦是否如表面所见，的确跟那个人有关。”
Shanghai, whose name literally means "a port on the sea", is one of the world's largest seaports and China's major industrial and commercial center.
上海的字面意思是“海上之埠”，这是世界上最大的海港城市之一，也是中国主要的工业和商业中心。
The funny name literally means "speed play" in Swedish, and it's one of my favorite "speed" workouts.
这个很文气的名字在瑞典语中的意思是“速度训练”，这也是我最喜欢的速度训练之一。
Such exclusion means that those who withhold salaries, confiscate passports, confine their employees to the house or otherwise abuse them, can literally get away with murder.
她们被排除在外，这等于说那些有薪水的人没收了她们的护照，将她们的雇员限制在屋子里，要不就是虐待她们，还可以摆脱谋杀的嫌疑。
This lizard's unique means of escaping predators involves literally walking on water.
这种蜥蜴面对掠食者的独特逃生措施包括自由行走在水面上！
They're seen as outsiders, and there's even a Chinese word for them-waidiren (y-de-ren) -which literally means outside place.
他们被认为是外来人口，并且甚至有一个汉字词组称呼他们——外地人——字面意思就是外地的。
The mascot was named Haibao, which literally means "treasure of the world". It is a blue smiling cartoon figure with curly hair and shaped like the Chinese character REN, or human being.
吉祥物叫做“海宝”，意为“四海之宝”，是一个蓝色的微笑的卷发卡通形象，形状像汉字的“人”。
The 85-year-old priest means people can be tempted and literally possessed by Satan.
他的意思就是，人们会受到魔鬼的诱惑，并且真的会被魔鬼附身。
The term for "underdogs" in Spanish is los de abajo — which literally means "those below" — and it's never sounded more gallant to this continent than it does now.
“弱者”一词在西班牙语中是losdeabajo--字面意思时那些低下的人--而现在对于他们来说却是如此英勇。
Since "resource modification" means little to them, "on" could be interpreted literally, as in, "on top of," or quite narrowly in a programmatic sense, as in, "as a super task."
因为他们对“资源修改”知之甚少，所以将“on”按字面解释，如“在……之上”，或非常勉强地用程序上的意义解释为“作为超级任务”。
The first part of the word, techn actually did mean “art” or “craft” from Greek, while the second half logy means more literally “the writings on” or “the accumulated knowledge about.”
单词的第一部分，techn在希腊语中实际上就意为“艺术”或者“工艺”。而第二部分logy更加准确的意思是“有关……的著作”或是“关于……累积的知识”。
This recording process seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update, which means that there could be almost a year's worth of location data stored - literally hundreds of thousands of data points.
自从苹果iOS4升级以来这一记录过程似乎就开始了，这意味着其中有可能已经存放了将近一年的方位数据——差不多几十万个点数据！
This literally means' to summarise 'but sounds more natural in spoken English. Use this expression if you want to summarise the main points of the meeting.
字面上意思是“总结”，但在口语中更为自然。如果你想要总结会议的要点，可以用这个表达。
This literally means' to summarise 'but sounds more natural in spoken English. Use this expression if you want to summarise the main points of the meeting.
字面上意思是“总结”，但在口语中更为自然。如果你想要总结会议的要点，可以用这个表达。
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