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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.
-- I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no computation of their altitude.
-- That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that, if my master had not thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jupe sent his daughter out on an errand not an hour ago, and then was seen to slip out himself, with his hat over his eyes, and a bundle tied up in a handkerchief under his arm.
-- As this was his usual hour for having a little confidential chat with Mrs. Sparsit, and as he had already caught her eye and seen that she was going to ask him something, he made a pretence of arranging the rulers, inkstands, and so forth, while that lady went on with her tea, glancing through the open window, down into the street.
-- Without a candle in the room, Mrs. Sparsit sat at the window, with her hands before her, not thinking much of the sounds of evening; the whooping of boys, the barking of dogs, the rumbling of wheels, the steps and voices of passengers, the shrill street cries, the clogs upon the pavement when it was their hour for going by, the shutting-up of shop-shutters.
-- Within an hour of the receipt of this dispatch and Mr. James Harthouse's card, Mr. Bounderby put on his hat and went down to the Hotel.
-- She can shut herself up within herself, and think as I have often known her sit and watch the fire for an hour at a stretch.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 6 Our Voyage to Iceland The hour of departure came at last.
-- An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of Elsinore.
-- In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose.
-- After this agreeable way of spending an hour or so, I tried to sleep.
-- We were more than an hour in crossing the fjord; but at length the passage was concluded without accident.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one thinks of inquiring of another person at what hour he retires to the privy.
-- She went softly, and in half an hour she came softly again.
-- It would be a brilliant morning, about half past five, his hour for rising.
-- And she consented to drive to Mans-field, both of them, to dinner, to bring Connie back to the lane-end after dark, and to fetch her from the lane-end the next morning, herself sleeping in Mansfield, only half an hour away, good going.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say what the hour is,' grumbled the first man.
-- I always know what the hour is, and where I am.
-- Monsieur Rigaud, as I expected yesterday, the President will look for the pleasure of your society at an hour after mid-day, to-day.'
-- 'What's the hour now?'
-- As the hour approached, its changes of measure made it more and more exasperating.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While making these maternal inquiries Mrs. March got her wet things off, her warm slippers on, and sitting down in the easy chair, drew Amy to her lap, preparing to enjoy the happiest hour of her busy day.
-- asked Meg, as she and Jo ran down to thank her for their gifts, half an hour later.
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