literal-minded

基本解释

• adj.没有想像力的；平淡的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• His editing precision was legendary and he was so literal-minded that he even corrected literary quotations.
  他审稿的精细程度令人叫绝。 他字斟句酌，毫不含糊，甚至是稿子在引用他人作品或名言时有误，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（译者注：一个博客的名字）的作者尼尔-惠特曼解释了为什么很多人觉得“培根油煎蛋”是美味早餐的首选，而“培根油加蛋”却让人觉得反胃到底。
• Don't be so literal-minded you know what I meant!
  别那么死心眼嘛--你知道我是什么意思！

权威例句

• 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