| 词组 | direct, directly |
| 释义 | direct, directly These adverbs are sometimes interchangeable: • ... will take you and your car direct from Dover to Stirling —Andrew S. Stoke, In Britain, February 1972 • ... took her directly from the closing night at the theater to the hospital —Anne Edward, Book Digest, January 1978 • ... suggesting I write to her direct —John Willett, Times Literary Supp., 26 Mar. 1970 • ... letters ... sent directly to me —John C. Messenger, Psychology Today, May 1971 • ... flown direct to Hong Kong —Geri Trotta, Town & Country, March 1980 • ... flew directly to Boston —Gail Cameron, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 • ... Shakespeare's Hamlet speaks direct to our condition —R. J. Kaufmann, American Scholar, Summer 1967 • The books ... speak directly to children —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 • ... put the question direct —Harold C. Schonberg, Harper's, February 1971 • We asked the ministers directly —Rodney Stark et al., Psychology Today, April 1970 • ... went into the hotel business direct —American Labor, December 1969 • Most graduates go directly into industry —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • "... the luggage is to be loaded direct on to the aircraft" — Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt, 1969 • ... it could be loaded directly onto barges —John Fischer, Harper's, January 1969 Directly is always used in preference to direct as a contrasting adverb paired with indirectly: • ... problems related directly or indirectly to the Vietnam War —Mary & Kenneth Gergen, Change, January-February 1971 Overall, directly is used quite a bit more often than direct. It has uses and meanings that it does not share with direct. An important exclusive use of directly is before the word or phrase it modifies; direct is not used in that way as an adverb. • There are more directly relevant pictures —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 • Directly in front of us, two men ... began attacking the pavement with a crowbar —James Jones, Harper's, February 1971 • Nobody left, unless he was directly told to —Jane O'Reilly, New York, 15 Feb. 1971 • ... supported by directly assisting a professor — Robert T. Blackburn, AAUP Bulletin, December 1967 • ... hand-stitch them to the pocket pieces directly underneath —Mary Johnson, Woman's Day, October 1971 • ... another handicap directly related to the predilection for violence —Richard J. Barnet, Harper's, November 1971 In addition, direct will not fit into the following uses, in which the adverb technically modifies the preceding verb form but is also tightly bound to the prepositional phrase that follows: • ... will vary directly with these selected variables — Matthew Besdine, Psychology Today, March 1971 • ... a fuel gauge viewed through a plate glass window set directly on the gas tank —Ford Truck Times, Summer 1970 • ... landing directly against the microphone —Robert Thompson, Harper's, October 1971 • ... the mountain that rose directly above our camp —Jane Goodall, Ladies' Home Jour., October 1971 Direct is likewise not used in the sometimes criticized senses relating to time that are discussed below at directly. |
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