時間上沒有間隔
把中間那段空白拿掉的對象換成時間：從這一刻到下一刻之間沒有等待，事情接著就發生。
directly, at once · r · B2
at once, with no waiting at all.
立刻
核心畫面
A straight line from here to there with nothing sitting in the middle — no go-between, no detour, no . Take that gap away in space and you get 'right above, right opposite'; take it away in speech and you get saying the thing itself; take it away in time and you get 'the moment it happened'.
可以想成：從這裡到那裡是一條直線，中間沒有東西擋著——沒有中間人、沒有繞路、沒有轉彎抹角。把中間那段拿掉之後，看空間…更多收起
可以想成：從這裡到那裡是一條直線，中間沒有東西擋著——沒有中間人、沒有繞路、沒有轉彎抹角。把中間那段拿掉之後，看空間就成了「正上方、正對面」，看說話就成了「有話直說」，看時間就成了「一發生就馬上」。From the picture
Also in this word
directly, no step between · r · B1
with no other person, thing, or step in between.
直接地
directly, exactly located · r · A2
exactly in a certain place, or pointing exactly a certain way.
正好在…
directly, speaking plainly · r · B1
used with speak, ask, answer, tell and other 'saying' verbs: saying exactly what you mean, without hiding anything.
直截了當地
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
directlyadv/dɪˈɹɛk(t).li/
- 1
In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- He drove directly to the office, and didn't stop off at the petrol station.
- On arriving at the doors, and entering a long, capacious passage, our eyes became quite dazzled by the gleams of colored light which shone upon them, both directly and reflectedly.
- 2
In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
- I'm sick of asking you to fire him; I'll just do it directly.
- 3
Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- I'm going to tell Natalie directly that I love her.
- To put it more directly: he's not 'made redundant' but sacked.
- 4
Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
- It's directly across the street.
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
- 5
Straightforwardly; honestly.
- He told me directly that he'd cheated on me, and how sorry he was for it.
- 6
datedImmediately.
- 7
dateddialectalSoon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- We'll go to the store directly, but first I need to finish sweeping.
directlyconj/dɪˈɹɛk(t).li/
- 1
As soon as; immediately (elliptical for directly that/as/when)
- “He is, he is," Nastenka repeated. “He is here, and I know it. We made an agreement at the time, that evening, before he went away: when we said all that I have told you, and had come to an understanding, then we came out here for a walk on this embankment. It was ten o'clock; we sat on this seat. I was not crying then; it was sweet to me to hear what he said.... And he said that he would come to us directly he arrived, and if I did not refuse him, then we would tell grandmother about it all. Now he is here, I know it, and yet he does not come!"
- Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。