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。

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To most people, such a home base, in the literal sense, needs more than one person for sustenance and in generational extension.

对大多数人来说，这样一个家庭基础，就其字面意义而言，需要不止一个人来维持和世代延续。

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Or maybe Forks was making me crazy in the literal sense of the word.

又或者是福克斯让我疯狂地脱离了对世界的正常感知。

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When Yeats aestheticizes the political, he makes it moving, moving in the literal sense of, I think, emotionally engaging and cathartic.

叶芝将政治艺术化时，他使之变得感人，在文字上很感人，我想它使人情绪感染，灵魂净化。

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This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

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Were the estates of those dying in 2010 getting off scot free, in the literal sense?

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Forced amateurism could have made sense when college athletics and the NCAA really were a nonprofit operation in the literal sense decades ago.

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But I don't believe every single thing in the literal sense of Jonah being in the belly of the whale, or, you know, there are some things in it that I think were put there as allegorical.

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