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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Zenith, with its saloons, was fifteen miles from Mohalis and the University of Winnemac; half an hour by the huge, roaring, steel interurban trolleys, and to Zenith the medical students went for their forays.
-- Before the next lab hour I shall be glad if you will read Pater's 'Marius the Epicurean,' to derife from it the calmness which iss the secret of laboratory skill."
-- IV It was regarded as immoral, at the University of Winnemac, to dance after midnight, and at that hour the guests crowded into the Imperial Cafeteria.
-- Oh, trust me--" Their profound and unresisted kiss was the more blind in memory of that barren hour with Angus.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An awful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden; Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.
-- ***** On returning from the Hay Market he flung himself on the sofa and sat for a whole hour without stirring.
-- And so, when the time came, he would only have to go quietly into the kitchen and to take the axe, and an hour later (when every-thing was over) go in and put it back again.
-- Supposing he returned an hour later to put it back, and Nastasya had come back and was on the spot.
-- His final decisions were what he came to trust least, and when the hour struck, it all came to pass quite differently, as it were accidentally and unexpectedly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
-- When her coming up to look for me, an hour or soafterwards, awoke me, she said that my mother had gone to bedpoorly, and that Mr. and Miss Murdstone were sitting alone.
-- MissMurdstone reappeared before I was out of bed; told me, in so manywords, that I was free to walk in the garden for half an hour and nolonger; and retired, leaving the door open, that I might avail myselfof that permission.
-- said the Master, looking at another old womanin a large chair by the fire, who was such a bundle of clothes that Ifeel grateful to this hour for not having sat upon her by mistake.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of every day.
-- When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed, 'It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us.
-- It rained dreadfully hard for half an hour while we were at breakfast.
-- She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor par-ticularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct pro-posal of marriage.
-- Emma felt the bad taste of her friend, but let it pass with a 'very true; and it would be a small consolation to her, for the clownish manner which might be offending her every hour of the day, to know that her husband could write a good letter.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The smaller of its hands, too, occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an act from the dressing hour in a bedroom to a time of travelling out of doors lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not intrinsically possess.
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- An hour passed, the girl returned, properly seated now, with a bag of bran in front of her.
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