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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Neal Whitman of Literal-Minded explains why "frying eggs in bacon grease" is, for many people, a way to make a delightful breakfast, but "fried eggs in bacon grease" sounds revolting to most.

Literal-Minded（译者注：一个博客的名字）的作者尼尔-惠特曼解释了为什么很多人觉得“培根油煎蛋”是美味早餐的首选，而“培根油加蛋”却让人觉得反胃到底。

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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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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