这样做的结果是导致市场在字面意义上的解体，作为商人，通过垄断供应的游戏，迫使一些公民度假时进行易货交易。

The result has been a literal disintegration of the market, as traders, intimidated by the changing rules of the game, withheld supply, reportedly forcing some citizens to resort to barter.

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今天，虽然，在巴黎一个大的火车站，人们都在寻找的不是在字面意义上的爱情，但爱情的另一种形式，从另一个时间。

Today, though, at one of Paris's grand train stations, people are not looking for love in the literal sense, but romance of another kind, from another time.

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在程序员那里，“黑客”传达的讯息和字面意义上的“精通”是一样的，即能让电脑做任何事——无论电脑愿不愿意——的人。

To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-whether the computer wants to or not.

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At least not if we try to take these claims fairly literally or take them to be metaphysical claims about the nature of death.

至少在我们从字面意义上,或从形而上学上解释死亡的本质时看不到。

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