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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Austin returned directly with the letter written by Paganel and signed by Glenarvan.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll see, he'll begin directly and tell us all about it beautifully.'
-- She came to me directly she arrived 'Save me, Lukian!find me some refuge, and say nothing to the prince!'
-- This went on for thirty years without a break; there was barely time to change the table-cloth; directly one person left, anoth-er took his place.
-- Lizabetha Prokofievna had announced, directly after lunch, that they would all take a walk together.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Directly the first crate was, in accordance with his directions, carried into the parlour, the stranger flung himself upon it with extraordinary eagerness, and began to unpack it, scattering the straw with an utter disregard of Mrs. Hall's carpet.
-- And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
-- Directly he saw Huxter he gave a sort of gasp, and turning sharply to the left, began to run.
-- Directly each of these young people had done, he or she made promptly for the door with such an expression of animation as I have rarely observed in a shop assistant before.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Indians warily re-traced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
-- One arm of the river flowed through a deep, narrow ravine, which its current had worn in the soft rock, directly beneath his feet, forming an effectual de-fense, as he believed, against any danger from that quarter; the water, a few rods above them, plunging, glancing, and sweeping along in its most violent and broken manner.
-- The great chief, so often mentioned, mount-ing the charger of Heyward, led the way directly across the river, followed by most of his people, and disappeared in the woods, leaving the prisoners in charge of six savages, at whose head was Le Renard Subtil.
-- Notwithstanding this appar-ent adherence in Magua to the original determination of his conquerors, Heyward could not believe his tempting bait was so soon forgotten; and he knew the windings of an Indian's path too well to suppose that its apparent course led directly to its object, when artifice was at all necessary.
-- 'Friend,' replied the low voice of Chingachgook; who, pointing upward at the luminary which was shedding its mild light through the opening in the trees, directly in their bivouac, immediately added, in his rude English: 'Moon comes and white man's fort far far off; time to move, when sleep shuts both eyes of the Frenchman!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- The river became strong almost directly between the two walls of granite, which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off.
-- Pencroft began directly to make his raft.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie imagined that he would marry her at once, though he had not directly said so, and her spirits rose.
-- He came with several friends directly from Rector's in a carriage.
-- She did not know just how such applications were made, but she took it to be a matter which related more directly to the theatre buildings.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she watched for a chance, and directly banged away at a rat; but she missed him wide, and said 'Ouch!'
-- Well, I fought along, and directly I hears the whoop BEHIND me.
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
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