| 释义 |
straightˈforwardly, adv.
[-ly2.]
In a straightforward manner.
1. Honestly, frankly, without reserve.
1839James Louis XIV, I. 279 The question was even put to it straightforwardly, whether it pretended, or not, to circumscribe the royal authority. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. 429 He avoided..having any thing to do with two-faced persons, who did not go simply and straightforwardly to work in their transactions. 1903De Blowitz Mem. 234 The friend who unfortunately, and quite straightforwardly, led us into this frightful speculation.
2. In consecutive order, without digression or intricacy.
1874Ruskin Fors Clav. xxxvii. 12, I do not pretend to tell you straightforwardly all the laws of nature respecting the conduct of men; but some of those laws I know [etc.]. 1906Daily Chron. 16 July 3/2 ‘Bess of the Woods’ is a quite straightforwardly told tale of the life of well-to-do country folk in the eighteenth century. |