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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Despatchingthis refreshment by the way, I went in the direction my friend hadindicated, and walked on a good distance without coming to thehouses he had mentioned.
-- Having obtained from this clerk a direction tothe academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, tovisit my old schoolfellow.
-- I am a man quite unaccustomed to observe; and I cannotbut believe that the observation of several people, of differ- entages and positions, all too plainly tending in one direction (andthat so natural), is better than mine.'
-- 'Perhaps, under such circumstances, madam and gentlemen,' saidMr. Micawber, 'you will do me the favour to submit yourselves, forthe moment, to the direction of one, who, however unworthy to beregarded in any other light but as a Waif and Stray upon the shoreof human nature, is still your fellow man, though crushed out ofhis original form by individual errors, and the accumulative forceof a combination of circumstances?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- I answered it within an hour; but from the confusion of my mind, and the multiplicity of business fall-ing on me at once, my answer, instead of being sent with all the many other letters of that day, was locked up in my writ-ing-desk; and I, trusting that I had written enough, though but a few lines, to satisfy her, remained without any uneasiness. I was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her again speedily; but I made excuses for her, and was too busy, and may I add? too cheerful in my views to be captious. We removed to Windsor; and two days after-wards I received a parcel from her, my own letters all returned! and a few lines at the same time by the post, stating her extreme surprize at not having had the smallest reply to her last; and adding, that as silence on such a point could not be misconstrued, and as it must be equally desir-able to both to have every subordinate arrangement concluded as soon as possible, she now sent me, by a safe conveyance, all my letters, and requested, that if I could not directly command hers, so as to send them to Highbury within a week, I would forward them after that period to her at : in short, the full direction to Mr. Smallridge's, near Bristol, stared me in the face.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It came from the direction of a small dark object under the plantation hedge a shepherd's hut now presenting an outline to which an uninitiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use.
-- Here he ensconced himself, and peeped through the loophole in the direction of the rider's approach.
-- Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.
-- "Here going through the plantation, and all down the hill," said Farmer Oak, with an aspect excessively knowing with regard to some matter in his mind, as he gazed at a remote point in the direction named, and then turned back to meet his colloquist's eyes.
-- The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak's person.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose to her feet and signed to Maxime to follow her, mirth and mischief in her whole attitude, and the two went in the direction of the boudoir.
-- "Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.--I am not speaking of the ladies," he added, turning in the direction of Mlle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew that I must travel in a southwesterly direction to reach my destination, but the sun was my only guide.
-- He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.
-- I quickly destroyed part of my sledge to construct oars, and by these means was enabled, with infinite fatigue, to move my ice raft in the direction of your ship.
-- But your direction was northwards.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took new courage at this thought and redoubled her efforts in the direction of Charles, whose brown eyesglowed down eagerly at her.
-- Throngs of women were coming up from the direction of therailroad tracks carrying hams across their shoulders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
-- He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody's coming to take the pie away.
-- I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, and he looked up at it for an instant.
-- The soldiers were moving on in the direction of the old Battery, and we were moving on a little way behind them, when, all of a sudden, we all stopped.
-- The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.
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