direct: suggests unbroken connection between one thing and another, for example, between cause and effect, source and issue, or beginning and end: had a ~ bearing on the case.           (issue这里指流出)


immediate: stresses the absence of any intervening medium or influence: had ~ knowledge about the situation.


direct直接: 强调关系未中断，immediate直接: 强调无间隔物

记忆方法: 1) 汉译英 a) 直接关系
                  b) 近邻
            答案: a) direct relation    b) immediate neighbours

         2) 直接的意思是未间断mean uninterrupted.