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straight
Word family
straight1 /streɪt/ ●●● S1 W2 adverbadv → strait
3 immediately 立即IMMEDIATELY immediately, without delay, or without doing anything else first 立即；径直，不延误地
straight to/up/down/back etc
5 honest 诚实的HONEST (also straight out) if you say or ask something straight, you say it in an honest direct way, without trying to hide your meaning 直率地，诚实地
6 think/see straight if you cannot think or see straight, you cannot think or see clearly 清楚地思考/看见
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think/see straight• Since that day she had not been able to sleep, or to think straight.• The buzz made it hard to think straight.• Then she might - just might - be able to think straight.• Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself.• You are horrified, you can not think straight, as you stare at the broken body.• On the outermost point of the peninsula we could see straight over to Midland Isle and just beyond that to Skomer Island.• Metaphorically speaking, you could see straight through him to the other side of the room.• He always saw straight to the point of an argument.
7 straight away (also straight off) British EnglishBrE spokenIMMEDIATELY immediately or without delay 立即，立刻，马上
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straight away• But Bokassa's family want to open the palace straight away.• He didn't answer straight away.• Loosen the pudding and turn it out to serve straight away.• Please send your gift straight away.• Unfortunately I couldn't get out here straight away.• Unmould on to a hot plate and serve straight away.• Windeler came in straight away, Hennessy a moment after.• We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium.
8 go straight informalHONEST to stop being a criminal and live an honest life 改邪归正，重新做人
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go straight• He's been going straight for about six months now.• Tony's been trying to go straight for about six months.• Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes.• Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole.• When she came back she avoided his look and went straight to a small table next to the stove.• He has been born into this world and gone straight to hell.• It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital, and they went straight to Jack's barn.• He went straight up to Oxford Street and bought a tracksuit.• You can't expect these people to go straight when no one's ever going to give them a job.
9 straight up spoken
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straight up• Ben earns $10,000 a month, straight up.• This is your second time at this college, straight up?• The rocket shot straight up and exploded overhead.• The towers of the hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.• At this point, the base of the golf club should point straight up into the air.• A thin crack running straight up the wall had appeared.
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straight• Harry was so drunk he couldn't see straight.• It's rained for eight days straight.• Terry was so drunk he couldn't walk straight.• His gaze appeared to be fixed straight ahead, and he seemed utterly at peace with himself and his surroundings.• If you look straight ahead, you'll see the church in the distance.• Serve immediately straight from the soufflé dish.• Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory.• Jane was walking purposefully along the hall, straight towards us.• When at last it came, he carried it straight up to his bedroom and hid it under the wardrobe.
straight ahead/at/down/in front of etc• On the street straight in front of the hotel.
straight to/up/down/back etc• The Well of Loneliness: Absinthe, straight up.• Perhaps he was going to punch it straight back at the batsman.• Switching on leads you straight to Channel 2.• It is down, straight down, into the rank and file, and there is nothing to break the fall.• About 25 of us arrived and went straight to the beer tent, where we spent quite some time.• They know that we send them straight to the cells at An Dap now, nomatterhow badly they injure themselves.• Then on Monday the chauffeur drove them straight to the theatre for the show.
came straight out with it• They came straight out with it: they wanted to supply all the spirits for the club - at very reasonable prices.
ldoce_320_cstraight2 ●●● S2 W3 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp straighter, superlativesupl straightest)
1 not bending or curving 不弯曲的STRAIGHT something that is straight does not bend or curve （笔）直的
4 one after another 一个接一个的 [only before noun]SERIES happening immediately one after another in a series 一个接一个的，连续的
5 tidy 整齐的 [not before noun]TIDY a room that is straight is clean and tidy and everything is in its proper place 整洁的，整齐的，有条理的
6 get something straight spokenUNDERSTAND to understand the facts of a situation and be able to tell them correctly 清楚无误地了解情况；弄清楚某事
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7 set/put somebody straight UNDERSTANDto make someone understand the true facts about a situation 使某人正确了解事实，使某人弄清楚情况
8 straight face SERIOUS/NOT JOKINGif you have a straight face, you are not laughing or smiling even though you would like to 严肃的表情〔指忍住不笑〕
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straight face• For the first hundred yards we keep straight faces.• How can you say that and keep a straight face?• It was very difficult to keep a straight face.• Kemp is straining to maintain a straight face.• We start with safe conversation and straight faces.• I try and keep a straight face, but I can't help grinning at myself.• Despite the problem of trying to maintain a straight face, there are distinct advantages to being on Cube's team.• The old trick of keeping a straight face was failing him these days.
9. sexual choice 性取向 informalHOMOSEXUAL someone who is straight is attracted to people of the opposite sex 异性恋的 SYN heterosexual
10 alcoholic drink 酒DFD a straight alcoholic drink has no water or any other drink added to it 纯的，不加水[其他饮料]的
11 not owing money 不欠债的 [not before noun]OWE# spoken if two people are straight, they no longer owe money to each other 互不欠债的
12 choice/exchange 选择/交换CHOOSE [only before noun] a straight choice or exchange is between only two possible choices or things 在两者之间作选择的，非此即彼的
13 fight/competition 斗争/竞赛 [only before noun] a straight fight or competition is between only two people 〔斗争或竞争〕仅在两人之间展开的，一对一的
14. normal 正常的 informalBORING someone who is straight behaves in a way that is accepted as normal by many people but which you think is boring 一本正经的
16 only one type 只有一种的 completely one particular type of something 纯正的，纯粹的
→ set/put the record straight at record1Examples from the Corpus
straight• I can't stand it when your friends come to visit - they're so straight.• I like my vodka straight.• Paul's quite nice but he's awfully straight.• Her hair is blonde and very straight.• Here's your dollar back - now we're straight.• I've asked several people what happened, but no one will give me a straight answer.• Anne loved Rome, with its open spaces and long straight avenues.• She's straight but she's got a lot of lesbian friends.• The road ran dead straight for 50 miles across the desert.• He will miss his second straight game when the Kings play Edmonton tonight at the Forum.• Johnston has played in 149 straight games and started in 90 of the last 91.• The New York Rangers have won seven straight games.• Tony Blair stated that he was 'a pretty straight kind of guy'.• She realized that she wasn't walking in a straight line and was unsteady on her feet.• It is a closely-packed map with hardly a straight line or an empty space in it.• All the posts stood erect and unblemished in a dead straight line.• a straight line• First, draw two straight lines across the page using a ruler.• Straight men often feel nervous in the company of gays.• How difficult, they reasoned, could a straight quarter-mile be compared to driving 500 miles on an oval track?• The crash occurred on a straight section of the highway.• How about a straight swap, my "U2" album for this one?• straight teeth• I don't care what you've done, Mike - just be straight with me.• Did you do it? Just give me a straight yes or no.
in a straight line• Because it was attached to the straw and the string, it went in a straight line.• The snow had come down the mountain and now met us on the road, sailing toward us in straight lines.• They are like crayfish, unable to walk in a straight line.• They followed rivers for convenience, then struck out in a straight line, bisecting mountain ranges, cutting watersheds in half.• Photographs showed it to consist of twenty or more radiant pieces in a straight line, embedded inside an extensive bright cloud.• He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner.• So they must have thought they were still going in a straight line heading for the bullseye.• All objects have a propensity to move in straight lines, upwards or downwards, towards their natural place.
straight answer• Now that was a straight answer.• Then I want a straight answer.• You just have to give a straight answer.• Tommy gave straight answers and expected them in return.• I also want a straight answer on Charlie Northrup.• Designed to provide a straight answer to a straight question as fast as possible.
get ... straight• And Sandy helped me decide that I was gon na get it straight.• I'd better go and get it straight.• Let me see if I get this straight.• We got attention straight away, we got some kind of profile very easily.• Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations.• He tried to get his mind straight, hold his bearings from veering off further.• He never quite got anything straight or complete in his mind.• Let's get straight to the jelly.
straight3 noun
2. the straight and narrow old-fashionedHONEST an honest and morally good way of life 循规蹈矩[安分守己]的生活
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the straight and narrow• She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow.• This will help you, both physically and psychologically, to get back on to the straight and narrow.• You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow.
3. [countableC] informalHOMOSEXUAL# someone who is attracted to people of the opposite sex 异性恋者 OPP gay
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From Longman Business Dictionary
straightstraight /streɪt/ adjectiveadj
honest and truthful
be/play straight with somebody
On this question, neither candidate has played straight with the voters.
(1300-1400) From an old past participle of stretch
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