straight是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 直的； 整齐的， 端正的ad. 直接； 正直， 直率，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only an iron bed, a straight chair, a chromo of St. Anne, and a shadeless hand-lamp on a rickety stand broke the staring shininess of the apartment, a recent extension of the farmhouse.
-- With his spoon held inside the cup by a brawny thumb, the policeman gulped his coffee and proclaimed, while the greasy friendly cook of the lunch-wagon nodded in agreement: "Well, if you want the straight dope, he hollers a good deal, but he's one awful brainy man.
-- "Any time you want a straight tip about people here, you just come to me.
-- I gave 'em straight science, last Sunday, and they ate it up.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the old woman said severely, com-ing into the room and, as before, standing in front of him so as to look him straight in the face.
-- At last he looked straight at Raskolnikov, and said loudly and resolutely: 'May I venture, honoured sir, to engage you in polite con-versation?
-- She walked straight up to Katerina Ivanovna and she laid thirty roubles on the table before her in silence.
-- The very next day, being Sunday, she went straight to the Cathedral, knelt down and prayed with tears to Our Lady to give her strength to bear this new trial and to do her duty.
-- Then she came straight from the Cathedral to us, told us the whole story, wept bitterly and, fully penitent, she embraced Dounia and besought her to forgive her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- I ceased to draw back, and we went straight to the best parlour,where she left me.
-- I was to ask my way to such aplace, and just short of that place I should see such another place,and just short of that I should see a yard, which I was to cross, andkeep straight on until I saw a turnkey.
-- 242We entered a low, old-fashioned room, walked straight into fromthe street, and found there Mrs. Heep, who was the dead image ofUriah, only short.
-- It landed me on the flat between the townand the sea, which I could make straight across, and so save myselfa considerable circuit by the high-road.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Never," said Mr Oak, so earnestly that he seemed to be coming, by the force of his words, straight through the bush and into her arms.
-- Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
-- Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrenden, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.
-- That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency's sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love.
-- But before I leave you I must have a paper signed ""Pay me the money, and we'll go straight to her parlour, and make any arrangement you please to secure my compliance with your wishes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A straight path beneath the walls on either side of the garden leads to a clump of lime-trees at the further end of it; _line_-trees, as Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beautiful!Great God!His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lus-trous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clayfields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
-- From her Frenchmother, whose parents had fled Haiti in the Revolution of 1791, had come her slanting dark eyes, shadowed by inkylashes, and her black hair; and from her father, a soldier of Napoleon, she had her long straight nose and her square-cut jaw that was softened by the gentle curving of her cheeks.
-- The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sankdown, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gauntand yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers aspossible.
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