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direct

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di·rect1 /dəˈrekt, ˌdaɪˈrekt◂/ ●●● S2 W1 adjectiveadj
1  without involving others 沒有涉及其他方面PERSONALLY/YOURSELF done without any other people, actions, processes etc coming between 直接的 OPP indirect
Experienced users have direct access to the main data files.
高級用戶可直接浏覽主數據文檔。
I’m not in direct contact with them.
我和他們沒有直接的聯系。
Few policy-makers have had direct experience of business.
決策者幾乎都沒有直接的從商經歷。
direct effect/impact/influence etc
Educational level has a sizeable direct effect on income.
教育程度對收入有很大的直接影響。
direct link/connection/relationship etc
There is a direct link between poverty and ill-health.
貧困與健康不佳有着直接的關系。
direct result/consequence
The decision to close the hospital is a direct result of Government health policy.
關閉這所醫院的決定是政府醫療保健政策導致的直接結果。
2  from one place to another 從一個地方到另一個地方STRAIGHT going straight from one place to another without stopping or changing direction 筆直的，徑直的〔中途不停的，不改變方向的〕 OPP indirect
Which is the most direct route to London?
哪條是到倫敦最直接的路線？
a direct flight to New York
直飛紐約的航班
3  exact 精確的 [only before noun]EXACT exact or total 精確的；恰好的；完全的
Weight increases in direct proportion to mass.
重量的增加與質量成正比。
For Lawrence, in direct contrast to Adam, everything seemed to come so easily.
與亞當恰恰相反，對勞倫斯來說一切都好像來得那麽容易。
a direct quote (=exact words) from the book
引自該書的一段原話
4  behaviour/attitude 行爲/態度HONEST saying exactly what you mean in an honest clear way 率直的，坦率的，直言的 OPP indirect
Women often feel men are too direct and not sympathetic enough.
女人常常覺得男人太直率，不夠體貼。
Now, let me ask you a direct question, and I expect a direct answer.
現在我要問你一個坦率的問題，希望你能坦率地回答。
► see thesaurus at honest
5  direct descendant FAMILYsomeone who is related to someone else through their parents and grandparents, not through their aunts, uncles etc 嫡系後裔
direct descendant of
She claimed to be a direct descendant of Wordsworth.
她自稱是華茲華斯的嫡系後裔。
Examples from the Corpus
direct of• In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.• The professor said he has no idea if Ayi is a direct descendant of other Glidji monarchs.• I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.• Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s.• Many of its problems are direct descendants of the central problems of philosophy.• The shire horses are direct descendants of the great war horses, and each one weighs a ton.• He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.• Both marriages were childless; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare.
6  direct hit an occasion on which something such as a bomb hits a place exactly, causing a lot of damage 〔炸彈等〕直接命中
During the war, the cathedral suffered many direct hits.
戰爭期間，這座大教堂多次被炸彈直接擊中。
One of the bombers scored a direct hit.
其中有一架轟炸機直接命中目標。
Examples from the Corpus
scored a direct hit• One scored a direct hit but, despite being showered with glass, there were no serious injuries.• A shell scored a direct hit on a petrol tank, and he felt the wave of heat from fifty yards off.
7  direct heat/sunlight HOT TASTEstrong heat or light that someone or something is not protected from 〔沒有任何防護的〕直接受熱/日照 OPP indirect
Never change the film in direct sunlight.
千萬不要在陽光照射下更換膠卷。
Examples from the Corpus
direct heat/sunlight• However, far more use is made of geothermal energy for direct heat.• Never fall asleep in direct sunlight.• Winter, summer, spring, or fall, the Vanyas' house received no direct sunlight.• Unfortunately it get direct sunlight, and is afflicted with algae.• In bright or open shade, there is no direct sunlight but plenty of indirect light.• In full shade there is no direct sunlight, but there is some indirect light.• They need bright light, but should be watched for signs of scorching in strong direct sunlight during the summer.• It needs this cooling device because it is more exposed to the direct heat of the sun.
→ directly1, directness
n COLLOCATIONS
nouns
direct access
Very few people have direct access to the president.
direct contact
The disease is only spread by direct contact between people.
a direct link/connection
The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home.
a direct relationship
We think having a direct relationship with customers is very important.
a direct effect/impact
Our organization’s work has a direct impact upon children’s lives in this country.
a direct result/consequence
Many illnesses here are a direct consequence of bad diet.
direct experience
People learn best through direct experience.
direct evidence
There is no direct evidence that this causes any harm.
direct control
The state has direct control over certain industries.
Examples from the Corpus
direct• Russell Glass of Premier Partners is more direct.• People were often scared of my father, who was very direct.• I have direct access to the company's database.• The government's concern has led it to exert fairly direct, although informal, control over the pay bargaining process.• A satisfactory alternative or addition to biliary brush cytology is direct biopsy of the stricture using small forceps under fluoroscopic control.• We have had no direct contact with any government officials.• I'm not in direct contact with them.• Tyler's fierce public image was a direct contrast to his tender love for his family.• Sue has direct control over the business.• From 1914 to 1918 the British people had their first direct experience of war from the air.• We can get a direct flight to New York.• There are also new direct flights from Newcastle, Norwich and Birmingham.• Cutbacks in defense spending will have a direct impact on 80,000 jobs.• The Chin tracks in India follow the most direct line between villages, regardless of gradient.• With her direct manner and good head for business she was soon promoted.• Accounting tends to supersede direct observation because the units to be controlled are usually many and they are also probably geographically dispersed.• The file designer will find it worthwhile to examine every direct processing application of an indexed sequential file critically.• Weight increases in direct proportion to mass.• But poverty is also the direct result of a new historical disadvantage: the exclusion of older men and women from work.• Which is the most direct route to London from here?• Shade Road would be a more direct route to the freeway.• It's best to be direct when talking with the management.
direct result/consequence• None spoke of stress but all were suffering from it, and their physical symptoms were the direct result.• But poverty is also the direct result of a new historical disadvantage: the exclusion of older men and women from work.• The differences are the direct result of evolution.• Debt is the direct result of the banking structure that has enriched the G7 leading industrial nations.• The change was thought to be a direct consequence of the protest action taken by conscripts in May.• Much of this is the direct result of the selection of more optimal sites for planting the grape.• They were a direct result of the Uprising.• The first of these events was a direct consequence of the war.
direct flight• There are also new direct flights from Newcastle, Norwich and Birmingham.• However, direct flight had its drawbacks as well.• Nova was developing in parallel as a booster capable of hurling a spacecraft to the Moon on a direct flight mission.• A late morning direct flight takes you to Kathmandu where you will stay at the Oberoi Soaltee Hotel for 2 nights.• On the grounds of minimizing risk, many of them had decided on a direct flight that did not involve docking spacecraft.• She argued in favour of a direct flight to London and then on to Jersey.• Fast direct flight with quick clipped wing-beats; at rest bobs head when suspicious.
in direct contrast to• This is in direct contrast to the company's more secretive past as part of the Central Electricity Generating Board.
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direct2 ●●● S3 W2 verb
1  aim 瞄準 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DIRECTION to aim something in a particular direction or at a particular person, group etc 把〔某物〕對準；針對
direct something at/towards etc something
The machine directs an X-ray beam at the patient’s body.
機器把X射線對準病人的身體。
The new route directs lorries away from the town centre.
新的道路使得卡車可以繞開鎮中心行駛。
I’d like to direct your attention to paragraph four.
我想請你們留意第四段。
I want to direct my efforts more towards my own projects.
我想把精力更多地投入到自己的項目中去。
2  be in charge 負責 [transitiveT]IN CHARGE OF to be in charge of something or control it 負責，管理，指導，監督
Mr Turner was directing the investigation from a very early stage.
特納先生從很早開始就在負責這項調查。
The choir was directed by Sir David Willcocks.
合唱團由戴維·威爾科克斯爵士指揮。
3  film/play 電影/戲劇APTAM [intransitiveI, transitiveT] to give the actors in a play, film, or television programme instructions about what they should do 導演
The play was directed by Frank Hauser.
這部戲劇由弗蘭克·豪澤導演。
4  way/route 道路 [transitiveT] formal to tell someone how to get to a place 給〔某人〕指路
direct somebody to something
Could you direct me to Trafalgar Square, please?
你能告訴我去特拉法爾加廣場怎麽走嗎？
► see thesaurus at lead
5  tell SB to do STH 告訴某人做某事 [transitiveT] formal to tell someone what they should do 指示，命令 SYN order
direct somebody to do something
The judge directed the jury to find Mr Baggs not guilty.
法官指示陪審團判巴格斯先生無罪。
direct that
He directed that his body should be buried in Upton.
他要求將他的遺體安葬在阿普頓。
► see thesaurus at order
Examples from the Corpus
direct• Now he directed a section of the Military Intelligence unit concerned with the security of the state from threats outside its boundaries.• Top level managers direct all computer-related activities in an organization.• Steinberg directed Argonne's chemistry division from 1982 to 1988.• All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum.• It was a troubled film, directed by Sam Peckinpah who constantly had the Columbia Studio brass breathing down his neck.• Those who are directing the ballpark construction say the lift technology is tested and will pose little danger to workers.• A former Thompson campaign worker, Mary Crutchfield, 30, is directing the Dole effort in that state.• Evaluation can be directed towards the various aspects of the educational course or programme.• A steward directed us behind the stage and towards the dressing rooms.• Go and ask the patrolman - he'll direct you to the freeway.
direct ... efforts• This focus can be used to direct all recruitment efforts.• But how best to direct our efforts for improvement is bound up with our perceptions of the reasons for the differences.• Organizational goals are clearly specified to direct efforts of employees toward greater efficiency.• Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.• We are committed to prudent exploration and will direct efforts to ventures which offer significant potential.• Negotiations with Moda'i Initially, Peres directed his efforts towards winning the support of small orthodox religious parties.
direct somebody to something• A nurse directed us down the hallway to the birthing room.
direct that• He also directed that full restitution be made and that Greenlaw serve three years of probation after completing his house arrest.• Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour.• One could well direct that question to the Labour party.• Burns' will directed that the money be used for college scholarships.• It may then direct that the records or documents be disclosed to other parties to the proceedings.
direct3 adverbadv
1  STOP MOVINGwithout stopping or changing direction 中途不停地，徑直地 SYN directly
Can we fly direct to Chicago, or do we stop in Salt Lake City first?
我們能否直飛芝加哥，還是要先在鹽湖城停一下？
2  IMMEDIATELYwithout dealing with anyone else first 直接地〔和某人打交道〕 SYN directly
Esther decided to contact the manager direct.
埃斯特決定直接和經理聯系。
It is usually cheaper to buy the goods direct from the wholesaler.
直接向批發商購貨一般比較便宜。
Examples from the Corpus
direct• Dole spoke directly about his age, saying it was not a liability.• She's not directly involved in the selling side of the business.• Its knowledge comes to it direct.• They wanted to talk to you direct, but I said that would frighten you off.• Don the swank, hop on the Vespa, and scoot on down for a lesson in ska direct from Fresno.• It's usually cheaper to buy the goods direct from the wholesaler.• I'm flying direct to Dallas from Los Angeles.
Origin direct1
(1300-1400) Latin directus, past participle of dirigere “to set straight, guide”

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