direct是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 径直的(地) v. 管理， 指导； (at， to) 指向，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Evg-enie, still smiling, and without making any direct reply to the question.
-- However, he there luckily met Colia, and commissioned him to deliv-er the letter to his brother as if direct from Aglaya.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hither of set purpose did he direct his horses, and his men followed him with a loud cry, for they felt sure that the Achaeans would not hold out longer, and that they should now fall upon the ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct you " He paused and tapped Mr. Marvel's shoulder smartly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first one and then another turned away from my direct stare, and looked at me in an odd, furtive manner.
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：
-- Addressing himself to his former guide, who had now assumed the authority and manner of one who was to direct the future movements of the party, he said, in tones as friendly and confiding as he could assume: 'I would speak to Magua, what is fit only for so great a chief to hear.'
-- But, unwilling to alarm the fears of Alice, she evaded a direct reply, betraying only by her anxious looks fastened on the slightest movements of her captors.
-- Even David hurled his assailant to the earth; nor was Heyward secured until the victory over his companion enabled the Indians to direct their united force to that object.
-- cried an eager pursuer, who seemed to direct the operations of the enemy.
-- The language of the Mohicans was accompanied by ges-tures so direct and natural that Heyward had but little difficulty in following the thread of their argument.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.
-- It was a matter upon which he was reticent, and with persons of his kind a direct question is never very discreet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was also the most direct way to reach the mountain.
-- It was necessary to beat a path, which would in the future form the most direct road to Prospect Heights and Mount Franklin.
-- In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.
-- However, the storm, coming from the northwest, blew across the island, and the position of Granite House preserved it from a direct attack.
-- Pencroft had formerly served on board a whaling-ship, and he could methodically direct the operation of cutting up, a sufficiently disagreeable operation lasting three days, but from which the settlers did not flinch, not even Gideon Spilett, who, as the sailor said, would end by making a "real good castaway."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- He wandered up and down the house and into and out of the various rooms, as if with some vague intent of bidding them adieu, but he referred neither by direct allusions nor in any other manner to the interview of the morning or the necessity of finding some other shelter.
-- As he yielded to this suggestion a ready and rapturous assent, they all rose and walked away together; he keeping close to the box of puppets in which he was quite absorbed, the merry little man carrying it slung over his arm by a strap attached to it for the purpose, Nelly having hold of her grandfather's hand, and Mr Codlin sauntering slowly behind, casting up at the church tower and neighbouring trees such looks as he was accustomed in town-practice to direct to drawing-room and nursery windows, when seeking for a profitable spot on which to plant the show.
-- 'If you could direct us anywhere, sir,' said the child, 'we should take it very kindly.'
-- 'If you can direct us, do.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the first moment she hazily recalled that new, wonderful world of feeling and thought which had been opened to her by that charming young man who loved her, and whom she loved, and then his inexplicable cruelty and the long chain of humiliation and suffering which followed as the direct result of that enchanting bliss, and it pained her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any risk, we put the boat's head direct for the landing-place.
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