The term white space is often misunderstood to literally mean white space.

留白一词往往容易被误解从字面解释的空白。

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I literally mean that it was my heart who said this, speaking through my mouth.

我确切的意思是，我的心透过我的嘴巴这么说。

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Which might literally mean "fifty years," or might just mean "a really long time."

字面意思可能是“五十年”，或只是“很长一段时间”的意思。

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"So let's move. And I mean literally,let's move!"

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But Skinner doesn't literally mean that when we talk to ourselves somebody gives us food pellets.

但斯金纳并不是在说,当我们自言自语时,会有人给我们食物小丸吃。

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When you say, "what do you say", you don't mean literally "what have you said", "what do you speak".

当你说，“what do you say”的时候，你并不是像字面意思那样要询问“你说了什么”，“你在说什么”，

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But, for pretty much the first time, we literally mean it.

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The government understands how to move and manage very large scales of data, while deriving information advantage that can literally mean the difference between life and death.

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Mr. SCORCESE: Yeah, and they just - I mean literally - extreme, extraordinarily, violent time - I mean in all of the major cities in the East Coast.

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