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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But look!here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.
-- Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath "The Spouter Inn: Peter Coffin."
-- No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth the bar when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.
-- Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
-- "Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
-- 'Why, a beak's a madgst'rate; and when you walk by a beak's order, it's not straight forerd, but always agoing up, and niver a coming down agin.
-- It is very possible that he fancied himself there, indeed; for it was plain, from his abstraction, that he saw not the book-stall, nor the street, nor the boys, nor, in short, anything but the book itself: which he was reading straight through: turning over the leaf when he got to the bottom of a page, beginning at the top line of the next one, and going regularly on, with the greatest interest and eagerness.
-- But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Hammond, he's got a property instinct, so naturally the straight road and the narrow gate are right for him.
-- He stared straight into Connie's eyes, with a perfect, fearless, impersonal look, as if he wanted to see what she was like.
-- 'I thought you would go straight ahead,' said Connie.
-- 'I wondered what the hammering was,' she said, feeling weak and breathless, and a little afraid of him, as he looked so straight at her.
-- For the first time he looked straight at her, and into her eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's extraordinary to me if you'll excuse my freedom in saying so that you don't go straight to London,' said Mr Meagles, in the tone of a confidential adviser.
-- She would not have put out her hand, it seemed, but that Mr Meagles put out his so straight before her that she could not pass it.
-- 'I never knew my father to show so much anxiety on any subject, as that his watch should be sent straight to you.'
-- The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams.
-- There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the dead-cold hearths showed no traces of having ever been warmed but in heaps of soot that had tumbled down the chimneys, and eddied about in little dusky whirlwinds when the doors were opened.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- some poor creeter came a-beg-gin', and your ma went straight off to see what was needed.
-- Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nine-teen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
-- It's the sort Father used to tell us,' said Beth thoughtfully, putting the needles straight on Jo's cushion.
-- 'I'll right it up in two minutes, for it only needs to have the hearth brushed, so and the things made straight on the mantelpiece, so and the books put here, and the bottles there, and your sofa turned from the light, and the pillows plumped up a bit.
-- The solitary, hungry look in his eyes went straight to Jo's warm heart.
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