Don't be so literal-minded you know what I meant!

别那么死心眼嘛——你知道我是什么意思！

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After several years of adjustment, the Russian won in the international space more literal-minded spin.

经过几年的调整，俄罗斯在国际上争得较大的迂旋空间。

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His editing precision was legendary and he was so literal-minded that he even corrected literary quotations.

他审稿的精细程度令人叫绝。 他字斟句酌，毫不含糊，甚至是稿子在引用他人作品或名言时有误，他都能更正。

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But that idea is weakened by a huge, literal-minded production.

NEWYORKER: Battle Stations

In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.

ECONOMIST: Imagining the soul