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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell Madame la Comtesse that I waited more than half an hour for her."
-- Three times he tried the experiment, and three times he found her doors closed against him, though he was careful to choose an hour when M. de Trailles was not there.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise.
-- With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the be-ing to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
-- Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
-- I told the servants not to disturb the family, and went into the library to attend their usual hour of ris-ing.
-- The picture was then produced which the servant had found in her pocket; and when Elizabeth, in a faltering voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, 91she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and in-dignation filled the court.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything butperfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.
-- An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his brightblue eyes, proposed a game.
-- When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babiesand "all the poor souls in Purgatory," she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary, like therushing of a soft wind, the responses from black throats and white throats rolled back: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death."
-- The kneeling figures, the soft glow of the lamp, the dim shadows where the negroes swayed, even thefamiliar objects that had been so hateful to her sight an hour ago, in an instant took on the color of her own emotions,and the room seemed once more a lovely place.
-- Each morning, rain or shine, Nellie was saddled and walked upand down in front of the house, waiting for the time when Mrs. Tarleton could spare an hour away from her duties.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dinner hour was half-past one.
-- But if he had looked at me for an hour or for a day, I could not have remembered his face ever afterwards, as having been more attentive.
-- After an hour or so of this travelling, we came to a rough wooden hut and a landing-place.
-- With an alphabet on the hearth at my feet for reference, I contrived in an hour or two to print and smear this epistle:--"MI DEER JO i OPE U R KRWITE WELL i OPE i SHAL SON B HABELL TEEDGE U JO AN THEN WE SHORL B SO GLODD AN WEN i M PRENGTD 2 U JO WOT LARX AN BLEVE ME INF XN PIP."
-- Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a 12 Grimms' Fairy Taleswide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
-- An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him.
-- The man had not known one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; the woman, however, was dead.
-- And they were very glad to see her, and took care not to wake her; and the seventh dwarf slept an hour with each of the other dwarfs in turn, till the night was gone.
-- Long before the end of the hour the work was quite done, and all flew out again at the windows.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
-- Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north-east coast, and put-ting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea, in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.
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