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straightway

/streyt-wey/US // ˈstreɪtˌweɪ //UK // (ˈstreɪtˌweɪ) //

直通车,直接,直行,立刻

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : straightaway.

Examples

  • "Very well," said the other, handing him a check for twenty-five dollars as a retainer, and straightway left the office.

  • When the English servant takes up hers, she straightway goes and buys a new hat to get photographed in it.

  • And straightway I saw that the insect stretched forth its slender arm toward Heaven; mysterious, mute, earnest, it was praying.

  • When he returned to France he straightway engaged in new efforts for the cause of liberty.

  • With that I took the men straightway to the king, bidding the house-carles hold their peace awhile.