这句比喻在字面上的真实度或许比他预期的要多一些吧。

There may be more literal truth to the metaphor than he intended.

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许多读者已经有自己的指标宠物了-有时是字面上的意思。

Many readers already have their pet indicator-sometimes literally.

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假设有个弯曲的平面-,字面上的，弯曲平面，大概是像。

Suppose I have a curved surface-- literally, a surface here in 26.100, which sort of looks like this...

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Vallombrosa literally means "shady valley," and I think it recalls Galileo's shady place, Valdarno, another valley.

瓦隆布罗萨字面上的意思是“成荫的村庄“,我认为这使人想起了伽利略阴暗的处所，另一个村子，瓦尔达诺。

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Literally, return the control from this function, and take the value of the next expression, and return that as the value of the whole computation.

正如字面意义上说的，从这个函数返回，然后取得下一个表达式的值,并把这个值作为整个计算的结果返回。

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Everyone is an enforcer or what Locke calls " "the executor"of the state of nature and he means executor literally.

每个人都是执行者，或洛克说的,自然法的“执刑者,这个“执刑者“可以字面上理解。

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