SPHERE. Tell me, Mr. Mathematician; if a Point moves Northward, and leaves a luminous wake, what name would you give to the wake? A straight Line. SPHERE. And a straight Line has how many extremities? SPHERE. Now conceive the Northward straight Line moving parallel to itself, East and West, so that every point in it leaves behind it the wake of a straight Line.英文原著 · 《Flatland》
Parvis surveyed the question dispassionately. "Oh, no, I don't. I don't even say it wasn't straight." He glanced up and down the long lines of books, as if one of them might have supplied him with the definition he sought. "I don't say it WASN'T straight, and yet I don't say it WAS straight. It was business." After all, no definition in his category could be more comprehensive than that.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
"The man you want to see," he added later in the conversation, "is old Judge Straight. He's getting somewhat stiff in the joints, but he knows more law, and more about the McSwayne estate, than any other two lawyers in town. If anybody can collect your claim, Judge Straight can. I'll send my boy Dave over to his office. Dave," he called to his attendant, "run over to Judge Straight's office and see if he's there.英文原著 · 《The House Behind The Cedars》
Germans remain German. An American lady of my acquaintance was about to climb from Amalfi to Ravello in company with a German lady of her acquaintance. The German lady had a German Baedeker, the American a Baedeker in English, published several years apart. The Baedeker in German recommended a path that went straight up the ascent, the Baedeker in English a path that went up more gradually around it. "Mine says this is the best way," said the American. "Mine says straight up is the best," said the German. "But mine is a later edition," said the American. "That is not it," explained the German.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Zane walked straight to the Fort, entered the block-house and knocked on the door of Clarke's room. A voice bade him come in. He shoved open the door and went into the room. Clarke had evidently just returned from a tramp in the hills, for his garments were covered with burrs and his boots were dusty. He looked tired, but his face was calm. "Why, Col. Have a seat. What can I do for you?"
"I have come to ask you to explain a remark of my sister's."
"Very well, I am at your service," answered Alfred slowly lighting his pipe, after which he looked straight into Col.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
And then thou mayest always distinguish the right way from the wrong. The wrong is crooked and wide, and the right is straight as a rule can make it,--straight and narrow.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-1》
Don't look at me, my hair's straight. Straight, straight, straight.美剧 · 《Friends》
-it means "go straight." -then just say, "go straight." You don't say, "go straight." When you're giving bearings, you say, "keep true." All right.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I've seen a guy take a girl straight to the Champagne Room. but never straight out of the club.美剧 · 《Billions》
And our mind straightens streets and perceives turns as 90-degree angles. and our mind straightens streets and perceives turns as 90-degree angles.演讲 · 《Making sense of maps ~ Aris Venetikidis》
And making the streets at straight, 90-degree corners, 45-degree corners and making the streets at straight, 90-degree corners, 45-degree corners演讲 · 《Making sense of maps ~ Aris Venetikidis》