literal-minded
基本解釋
- adj.沒有想像力的;平淡的
英漢例句
- His editing precision was legendary and he was so literal-minded that he even corrected literary quotations.
他審稿的精細程度令人叫絕。 他字斟句酌,毫不含糊,甚至是稿子在引用他人作品或名言時有誤,他都能更正。 - 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(譯者注:一個博客的名字)的作者尼爾-惠特曼解釋了為什么很多人覺得“培根油煎蛋”是美味早餐的首選,而“培根油加蛋”卻讓人覺得反胃到底。 - Don't be so literal-minded you know what I meant!
別那么死心眼嘛--你知道我是什么意思! - But that idea is weakened by a huge, literal-minded production.
NEWYORKER: Battle Stations - Yet that is why Mr Zhang's care for period detail—many of the costumes of his cast of hundreds were meticulously researched Ming dynasty re-creations—struck some mainland opera-goers as literal-minded.
ECONOMIST: Grand opera in China - 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