directly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 直接地， 径直地； 马上， 立即，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I gave him one of my three brightshillings, which he received with much humility and veneration, 71and spun up with his thumb, directly afterwards, to try thegoodness of.
-- 'Young or old, Davy dear, as long as I am alive and have this houseover my head,' said Peggotty, 'you shall find it as if I expected youhere directly minute.
-- I was so shocked by the contents of this heart-rending letter, that Iran off directly towards the little hotel with the intention of takingit on my way to Doctor Strong's, and trying to soothe Mr.Micawber with a word of comfort.
-- But as I had none but passing thoughts for any subject save Dora, Iglanced at her, directly afterwards, and was thinking that I saw, inher prettily pet- tish manner, that she was not very much inclinedto be particularly confidential to her companion and protector,when a bell rang, which Mr. Spenlow said was the first dinner-bell,and so carried me off to dress.
-- 'Without more directly referring to any latent ability that maypossibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directingthe devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may bepermitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are forever dispelledthat my peace is shattered and my power ofenjoyment destroyedthat my heart is no longer in the right place- 648and that I no more walk erect before my fellow-man.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- Emma saw Mrs. Weston's surprize, and felt that it must be great, at an address which, in words and manner, was assuming to himself the right of first interest in her; and as for herself, she was too much provoked and offended to have the power of directly saying any thing to the purpose.
-- She then proceeded to say a good deal more than she felt, of the advantage of such an addition to their confined society in Surry; the pleasure of looking at somebody new; the gala-day to Highbury entire, which the sight of him would have made; and ending with reflections on the Churchills again, found herself directly involved in a disagreement with Mr. Knightley; and, to her great amuse-ment, perceived that she was taking the other side of the question from her real opinion, and making use of Mrs. Weston's arguments against herself.
-- But you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own.
-- 'Oh, the difference of situation and habit!I wish you would try to understand what an amiable young man may be likely to feel in directly opposing those, whom as child and boy he has been looking up to all his life.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian.
-- Directly he seized it she put it behind her, so that it slipped through his fingers like an eel.
-- 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.
-- This was recognized by all as the conclusion of some gloomy speech which had been expressed in thought alone during the shake of the head; Henery meanwhile retained several marks of despair upon his face, to imply that they would be required for use again directly he should go on speaking.
-- Directly Cain mentioned Bath, they all threw down their hooks and forks and drew round him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Less superficial observers than young men engulfed by the whirlpool of Parisian life, or old men, who took no interest in anything that did not directly concern them, would not have stopped short at the vaguely unsatisfactory impression that Vautrin made upon them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was in a state of ex-treme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tell me directly what you've been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I'd have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
-- "I'd do that, if I was going to be strung up to that there gallows as there is over there, directly afterwards.
-- "Not directly profitable.
-- The cast was made in Newgate, directly after he was taken down.
-- The waiter (it was he who had brought up the Great Remonstrance from the Commercials, on the day when I was bound) appeared surprised, and took the earliest opportunity of putting a dirty old copy of a local newspaper so directly in my way, that I took it up and read this paragraph:--Our readers will learn, not altogether without interest, in reference to the recent romantic rise in fortune of a young artificer in iron of this neighborhood (what a theme, by the way, for the magic pen of our as yet not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!)
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.
-- While she was making the most of it, her master came and cried: 'Hurry up, Gretel, the guest is coming directly after me!'
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