direction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 方向， 方位； 指令， 说明，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of en-deavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turn me in some other direction before I go.'
-- 'I devote you,' said this person, stopping at the last door 152 A tale of two citieson his way, and turning in the direction of the sanctuary, 'to the Devil!'
-- If he appeared to be in his customary state of mind, Mr. Lorry would then cautiously proceed to seek direction and guidance from the opinion he had been, in his anxiety, so anxious to obtain.
-- A curious contagion of whispering was upon it, and also, when it gathered together at the fountain in the dark, an-other curious contagion of looking expectantly at the sky in one direction only.
-- Monsieur Gabelle, chief functionary of the place, became uneasy; went out on his house-top alone, and looked in that direction too; glanced down from be-hind his chimneys at the darkening faces by the fountain below, and sent word to the sacristan who kept the keys of the church, that there might be need to ring the tocsin by-and-bye.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So off he went in the direction of East Street, and had nearly got to the end of it when the moon shone forth.
-- It took its direction towards the body in a straight line; and a few seconds after, life began to show itself in the man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that direction gazed the young men, not venturing to approach.
-- Chapter 621 "Yes, there is something in be hatful, repulsive," thought Levin, as he came away from the Shtcherbatskys', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings.
-- But not only those ladies, almost everyone in the room, even the Princess Myakaya and Betsy herself, looked several times in the direction of the two who had withdrawn from the general circle, as though that were a disturbing fact.
-- A hawk flew high over a forest far away with slow sweep of its wings; another flew with exactly the same motion in the same direction and vanished.
-- This child's presence called up both in Vronsky and in Anna a feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one, but that to arrest his motion is not in his power, that every instant is carrying him further and further away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily, however, for Mr. Fogg, the animal's instruction in this direction had not gone far, and the elephant still preserved his natural gentleness.
-- It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms.
-- From this point it took an easterly direction towards the jagged Wahsatch Mountains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a time a sense of direction began to appear in his crazy drifting.
-- She knew the direction of St. Swithin's Parish--beyond that delicate glimmer of lights from palm huts coiling up the hills.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned in the direction of the Vassilyevsky Ostrov, walking along Vassilyevsky Prospect, as though hastening on some business, but he walked, as his habit was, without noticing his way, muttering and even speak-ing aloud to himself, to the astonishment of the passers-by.
-- She opened her eyes fully all of a sudden, looked at him intently, as though realising something, got up from the seat and walked away in the direction from which she had come.
-- At any rate, the direction in which explanation is to be sought is clear, and the jewel-case points to it.
-- From old habit he took his usual walk in the direction of the Hay Market.
-- He stood and thought a little and took a turning to the right in the direction of V. He had often crossed that little street which turns at an angle, leading from the market-place to Sadovy Street.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Under the impression,' said Mr. Micawber, 'that yourperegrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive,and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcanaof the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road- in short,'said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, 'that you mightlose yourself- I shall be happy to call this evening, and instal you inthe knowledge of the nearest way.'
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