hour是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小时， 钟点； 时刻； 课时， 工作时间，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
-- At length the hour of shutting up the counting- house arrived.
-- He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to heaven, this was, perhaps, the wisest resolution in his power.
-- 'The hour itself,' said Scrooge triumphantly, 'and noth-ing else!'
-- He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, he had been the prison-er's friend, but, at once in an auspicious and an evil hour 91detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred al-tar of his country.
-- 'At what hour did he come on board?'
-- An hour and a half limped heavily away in the thief-and-rascal crowded passages below, even though assisted off with mutton pies and ale.
-- 'About the usual time; it may be a quarter of an hour lat-er.'
-- Could it have lived an hour as happily?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a different suit for each hour of the day; and as of any other king or emperor, one is accustomed to say, 'he is sitting in council,' it was always said of him, 'The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe.'
-- and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits rattled, and the silk gowns rustled; the hog's leather spoke, and the old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism in their backs: Ugh!it was exactly like the first time, for over there one day and hour was just like another.
-- But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall frozen to death on the last evening of the old year.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If they knew," he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he listened to the report, "what a guilty little boy their president was half an hour ago."
-- Most fortunate," he said to his wife, dismissing Vronsky altogether, "that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion," he went on in the same jesting tone.
-- After dinner he spent half an hour with his guests, and again, with a smile, pressed his wife's hand, withdrew, and drove off to the council.
-- If you would kindly sign the title-deed..." Within an hour the merchant, stroking his big overcoat neatly down, and hooding up his jacket, with the agreement in his pocket, seated himself in his tightly covered trap, and drove homewards.
-- Yashvin overtook him with his cap, and led him home, and half an hour later Vronsky had regained his self-possession.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.
-- Everything was regulated and foreseen that was to be done from half-past eleven a.m. till midnight, the hour at which the methodical gentleman retired.
-- Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning.
-- The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay.
-- He ought to know that he would not be safe an hour in India, which is English soil."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a silent, sharp- faced, curly-headed, rather handsome young man, and he never squandered an hour or a good impulse.
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