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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And her heart went up to God in sincerethankfulness that a pathway for her feet had been opened out of her misery and straight to the arms of Ashley.
-- Ah done promise Miss Pitty Ahbring you straight home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We passed the finger-post, and held straight on to the churchyard.
-- On the previous night, I had been sent straight to bed in an attic with a sloping roof, which was so low in the corner where the bedstead was, that I calculated the tiles as being within a foot of my eyebrows.
-- I went straight to Mr. Pumblechook's, and was immensely relieved to find him not at home.
-- Instead of going straight to the gate, too, she stepped back into the passage, and beckoned me.
-- As it was almost noon, Joe and I held straight on to Miss Havisham's house.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- Go straight on, and in the evening you will arrive at a castle.
-- Now Sultan had no- 29body he could ask to be his second but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.
-- The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.
-- Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon the handle.
-- While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that belonged to one of the chief gar-deners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to range near the place where I lay: the dog, following the scent, came directly up, and taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master wagging his tail, and set me gently on the ground.
-- I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife and family in good health.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lawn and garden and an infant avenue, all ruled straight like a botanical account-book.
-- 'The girl is now waiting to know,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'whether she is to go straight to the school, or up to the Lodge.'
-- Bounderby,' she went on in a steady, straight way, without regarding this, 'asks me to marry him.
-- 'Then go straight up there, will you?'
-- I belong to the Bank; so, if you go straight up without me (I was sent to fetch you), you'll save me a walk.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had the inflexibility of a straight line.
-- After we had gone about five hundred yards, we suddenly turned a steep promontory, and found ourselves close to a lofty forest!It consisted of straight trunks with tufted tops, in shape like parasols.
-- [4] The facial angle is formed by two planes--one more or less vertical which is in a straight line with the forehead and the incisors; the other, horizontal, which passes through the organs of hearing, and the lower nasal bone.
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