It's not quite peace in the strictest sense of the word, rather the absence of war.

这个词就其最确切的意义而言不完全是和平，更像是没有战争。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I am not referring to 'small' people in the literal sense of the word.

我指的不是字面意义上的“小”人。

《牛津词典》

I'm using the word 'academic' here in a pejorative sense.

我这里使用的“学术”一词是贬义的。

《牛津词典》

The men against whom Saint Peter is really spitting his venom are bad pastors in every sense of the word.

圣彼得这个表露出恶意的男人,是通常意义上的低劣的牧师们。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a provisional ending. It's not a rhyme word, and so it doesn't constitute the end of a unit of sense as a rhyme word would in most heroic couplets.

它不是真的结尾，不是韵脚，因此它不像大部分英雄双韵体中的韵脚词一样,标志着一个意思表达的完结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And in that sense, in another intellection, in the beginning was and is the word.

从这种角度来讲，我们的思想是由语言开始的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.

FORBES: Machines Will Outsmart Humans. We Better Be Ready

Some commentators on Mr Thom's work question whether the momentous events of history can really be called catastrophes, using the word in the sense that they were totally unexpected interruptions of an ordered existence.

ECONOMIST: Ren�� Thom

And so for me to be able to be good to my word in that sense and show them that I didn't abandon them, that I was just getting off the show and I loved the characters and I love them.

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