take sb / sth literally

take sb / sth literally to believe exactly what someone or something says rather than trying to understand their general meaning仅仅从字面上理解某人/某事物:•She takes the Bible literally.她是从字面上去理解《圣经》的。

• oligopod larva
• macaroon
• uranics
• Roy
• at gut level
• tallow trees
• run off with
• roughies
• St Laurent, Louis Stephen
• precipitous
• person-days
• vale
• bring sb to derision
• debriefed
• clear as noonday
• have it your（own） way
• rehearsing
• posadas
• oxford greys
• palpitated
• malignant embolus
• nonintervention
• be engaged in
• kayseris
• end of one's rope
• logical analysis
• function multiplier
• camera calibration
• sinistrals
• assies
• ascendeur
• on credit
• blarneyed
• acanthodian
• talk sb down
• skeeters
• Coventry
• multiple tropopause
• know where one stands with someone
• lady's laces
• miniski
• patton M46
• walk off with the persimmon(s)
• sundrily
• Y-coordinates
• fifroelastoses
• disprivileges
• brush machine
• timelessly
• draw the fire of someone
• ahimsa
• companion body
• high blood pressure
• Ab ishag, Abisag
• caulome
• conformer
• DBHS
• felicitating
• knock someone into the middle of next week
• cultural warrior
• utility box
• Pakokku
• liminess
• (hard / hot / close) on the heels of sth
• stickability
• trace
• doorway
• smack sb↔up
• bourner
• impact mill
• spit (out) the dummy
• percussionists
• shriving
• prince of darkness (或 evil,fiends, the air,the world,this world)
• Carme
• Sui
• T-maze
• bindins
• stoichiometries
• in safe hands
• defunctness
• tootsy-wootsy
• osteoplasty
• take note
• lavatories
• be dolled dressed to kill
• atmospheric inversion
• demagnifier
• return date
• mezzanines
• lathemen
• give orders
• not for a（或one）moment
• impostrous
• gallop
• let the side down
• Afghanistan
• lammass
• go near to
• to think (that) … !