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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to make rapidly for the yacht, beating the waves violently with his fins, and keeping his tail in a perfectly straight line.
-- He would not delay an instant, but went straight on to the house of Mr. Bentic, her Majesty's Consul, who received them very courteously, and, on learning their errand, undertook to make inquiries all along the coast.
-- Do you not all agree with me that it is our duty to go along the line my finger is pointing out at this moment on the map, and if after all we find I have been mistaken, still to keep straight on and follow the 37th parallel till we find those we seek, if even we go right round the world?"
-- "You see then, friend," he added, "that it is a straight course.
-- It was, therefore, decided that Arauco should be the point of departure, and they should keep on from there toward the east in a straight line.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, I have very little hesitation in saying that could we examine the waste-paper baskets of the hotels around Charing Cross until we found the remains of the mutilated Times leader we could lay our hands straight upon the person who sent this singular mes-sage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sikes kept straight on, until they were close upon the bridge; then turned suddenly down a bank upon the left.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to a mast, that was easy enough to get; so I pitched upon a straight young cedar-tree, which I found near the place, and which there were great plenty of in the island, and I set Friday to work to cut it down, and gave him directions how to shape and order it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "They come straight from town, as Miss Lucy Mrs.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie went straight forward until she crossed the river, and then turned into Fifth Avenue.
-- She followed him diffidently through the clattering automatons, keeping her eyes straight before her, and flushing slightly.
-- It was thrown so straight in her direction that she knew who was meant, but never turned to look.
-- He wanted to plunge in with a straight remark of some sort, but he knew not what.
-- He went straight up to the desk.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So they all made fun of him, and called him cry- baby, and that made him mad, and he said he would go straight and tell all the secrets.
-- The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it.
-- Then she took off the hank and looked me straight in the face, and very pleasant, and says: 'Come, now, what's your real name?'
-- When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides.
-- We was drifting straight down for her.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head.
-- On hearing himself addressed as your Excellency, the Director of the Marionette Theater sat up very straight in his chair, stroked his long beard, and becoming suddenly kind and compassionate, smiled proudly as he said to Pinocchio: "Well, what do you want from me now, Marionette?"
-- In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.
-- Pinocchio, trying to feel very brave, walked straight up to him and said in a sweet, soothing voice: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Serpent, would you be so kind as to step aside to let me pass?"
-- He fell so awkwardly that his head stuck in the mud, and there he stood with his legs straight up in the air.
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