They can be used in the literal sense of familiarity with something or someone.

它们可以用于表达对某物或某人的熟悉程度。

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

要不可能就是福克斯使得我成了真正的疯子了。

Now you may argue that email is eternal, and in the literal sense you'd probably be right.

你可能会说电子邮件是永恒的，从字面意义上讲，你可能是对的。

It was hell on Earth, in the literal sense.

从字面上看， 这是人间地狱。

The intention is to be awesome in the literal sense.

意图是在字面意义上令人敬畏。

And around is in the literal sense, is pretty, pretty explanatory.

around 是字面意义上的，非常非常具有解释性。

To be steamrolled in the literal sense means to be flattened or crushed by something that overpowers you.

被压垮的字面意义是指被某种比你更强大的东西压扁或碾碎。

Of course, we don't expect our lives to become adventures in the literal sense that we too will be fighting aliens or becoming pirates.

当然，我们并不期望我们的生活变成字面意义上的冒险，我们也会与外星人战斗或成为海盗。

And yet I believe that in this paradox, we can find the true meaning of the heptapods' gift, but only if we don't look at it in the literal sense.

然而，我相信在这个悖论中，我们可以找到七肢桶礼物的真正含义，不过我们不能从字面意义上去理解。

In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements?

毫无疑问，从字面上看， 自然选择是一个错误的术语；但是谁曾反对化学家谈论各种元素的选择性亲和力呢？

We see this disconnection from the natural world in the literal sense in Dersu Uzala, in which a Russian explorer befriends a local hunter who is ultimately taken back to civilization where he is unable to find comfort.

从字面意义上讲，我们在《德尔苏·乌扎拉》中看到了这种与自然世界的脱节，一个俄罗斯探险家和一个当地猎人成为朋友，后者最终被带回了文明世界，在那里他无法找到安慰。

But it took until 1995 for scientists to measure such a wave—a 26-metre monster, amid other waves averaging 12 metres—off the coast of Norway, proving these tales to be tall only in the literal sense.

但直到 1995 年，科学家们才在挪威海岸测量了这样一个 26 米长的巨浪，以及其他平均 12 米高的巨浪，证明这些故事只是字面意义上的“高”。