The word means literally 'to knock the head'.

这个词字面意思就是“碰头”。

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The word "Shanghai "in Chinese means literally "a port on the sea".

“上海”这个词在汉语里的字面意思是“海上之埠”。

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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。

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Aloha literally means "breath of life."

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Vallombrosa literally means "shady valley," and I think it recalls Galileo's shady place, Valdarno, another valley.

瓦隆布罗萨字面上的意思是“成荫的村庄“,我认为这使人想起了伽利略阴暗的处所，另一个村子，瓦尔达诺。

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Everyone is an enforcer or what Locke calls " "the executor"of the state of nature and he means executor literally.

每个人都是执行者，或洛克说的,自然法的“执刑者,这个“执刑者“可以字面上理解。

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Diet, he says, is a scientific word that quite literally means what food you put into your body each day.

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Shanzhai, which literally means "mountain fortress" and implies banditry and lack of state control, refers to China's vast array of name-brand knockoffs.

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"The word 'jihad' literally means struggle, struggle for a good cause, " said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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