straight是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 continuing in one direction without bending or curving -- 直的（地），筆直的（地）

  • a straight line 直線

  • She has straight blonde hair. 她有一頭金色直髮。

  • Skirts this summer are long and straight. 今夏的裙裝流行長長的直筒裙。

  • Can't you see it? - it's straight ahead (of you)! 難道你看不見嗎？——就在（你）正前面！

  • The dog seemed to be coming straight at/for me. 那隻狗似乎是一路朝我跑過來的。

  • Go straight along this road and turn left at the traffic lights. 沿著這條路一直走，到了紅綠燈那裡向左轉。

• 1 honest -- 坦誠的，直率的

  • Just be straight with her and tell her how you feel. 對她坦誠一些，告訴她你的感覺。

  • informal Tell me straight, would you rather we didn't go tonight? 請坦白告訴我，你是不是希望我們今天晚上不去？

  • I told her straight out that I didn't love her any more. 我直接了當告訴她我不再愛她了。

• 2 immediately -- 徑直，直接；立即

  • I got home and went straight to bed. 我回到家就立即上床睡了。

  • We'll go straight to the party after dinner. 晚飯後我們直接去參加聚會。

  • Time is short so I'll get straight to the point (= explain the matter immediately). 時間不多，所以我就有話直說了。

  • I knew straight away what you were thinking. 我立刻就知道你在想甚麼。

  • We don't need to go straight off - we can stay for a little while. 我們用不著馬上就走——我們可以留一會兒。

• 3 clearly -- 清楚地

  • You know you've had too much to drink when you can't see straight. 如果你眼都花了，那你就知道自己喝得太多。

  • I'm so tired I can't think straight any more. 我累壞了，頭腦都不清楚了。

• 4 clear or not complicated -- 清楚的；簡單明瞭的

  • It's a straight choice - either you leave him or you stay. 你的選擇很簡單——不是離開他，就是留下。

  • Let's get this straight - you're travelling to Frankfurt on Monday and Brussels on Tuesday, is that correct? 我們把狀況弄清楚——你週一要去法蘭克福，週二去布魯塞爾，對嗎？

• 5 level and not sloping to either side -- 平的，平直的；正的

  • This picture's not straight. 這幅畫不正。

  • The shelf isn't straight - it sags in the middle. 架子不平——中間陷下去了。

• 6 plain and basic, or without anything added -- 純的，不摻其他東西的

  • No tonic for me, please, I like my vodka straight. 請不要給我加奎寧水，我喜歡喝純伏特加。

  • Straight pasta is very bland - you need some kind of sauce to make it interesting. 甚麼佐料也不加的義大利麵條沒甚麼味道——你需要加些醬汁才會有滋味。

• 7 following one after another without an interruption -- 連續的，不間斷的

  • They're the only team to have won ten straight games this season. 他們是這個賽季唯一一支連贏十場比賽的球隊。

• 8 tidy, or arranged in order -- 整齊的，整潔的；井井有條的

  • It only took an hour to get the flat straight after the party. 聚會之後，只用了一個小時就把公寓收拾得整整齊齊。

  • Do you have a mirror? - I'll just put my hair straight. 你有鏡子嗎？——我要把頭髮梳理整齊。

• 9 traditional or serious -- 傳統的，正統的；規矩的；嚴肅的

  • disapproving He was a nice enough guy, but he was so straight - I always felt I had to be on my best behaviour with him. 他是個不錯的傢夥，不過太嚴肅了——我總是覺得我和他在一起都得規規矩矩的。

  • There's a lot of straight theatre at the festival as well as the newer, more experimental stuff. 戲劇節上有許多正統的戲劇作品，也有不少比較新、更有實驗性的劇目。

• 10 not gay -- 異性戀的

• 11 not using illegal drugs or alcohol -- 不吸毒的；不酗酒的

  • He's been straight for five months. 他戒毒已經有五個月了。

• 12 neither owing nor owed any money -- 不欠錢的；兩清的

  • You bought the tickets, so if I pay for the taxi, we'll be straight. 你買門票，因此如果我付計程車費，我們就扯平了。

• 13 the straight part of a racetrack (= the track on which competitors race) -- 直道，直線跑道

  • And the runners are just coming up to the finishing straight. 選手剛跑上最後一個直道。

• 14 a person who is not gay -- 異性戀者