literal-minded

常见例句

His editing precision was legendary and he was so literal-minded that he even corrected literary quotations.
他讅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-惠特曼解釋了爲什麽很多人覺得“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!
別那麽死心眼嘛--你知道我是什麽意思！

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