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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, like all happiness, it did not last long, for as sure as she had just reached the heart of the story, the sweetest verse of a song, or the most perilous adventure of her traveler, a shrill voice called, 'Josy-phine!Josy-phine!and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
-- She boiled the asparagus for an hour and was grieved to find the heads cooked off and the stalks harder than ever.
-- 'Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing,' thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispir-ited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted.
-- I thought the bumpkin's hour of doom was come.
-- From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
-- 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge, as wild, untutored things are forced to feed Oh, life!
-- Yet the premature hour of the Pequod's sailing had, perhaps, been correctly selected by Ahab, with a view to this very complexion of things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half an hour after breakfast next morning, Mr. Bumble entered the shop; and supporting his cane against the counter, drew forth his large leathern pocket-book: from which he selected a small scrap of paper, which he handed over to Sowerberry.
-- There was not so great a necessity for hurrying as Mr. Sowerberry had anticipated, however; for when they reached the obscure corner of the churchyard in which the nettles grew, and where the parish graves were made, the clergyman had not arrived; and the clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire, seemed to think it by no means improbable that it might be an hour or so, before he came.
-- 'You were not awake an hour ago?'
-- The merry old gentleman, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in his pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imitation of the manner in which old gentlemen walk about the streets any hour in the day.
-- His wardrobe was, in truth, rather out of repair; but he excused himself to the company by stating that his 'time' was only out an hour before; and that, in consequence of having worn the regimentals for six weeks past, he had not been able to bestow any attention on his private clothes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 11 hen the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran Wup to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of plea-sure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.
-- Chapter 16 s no objection was made to the young people's engage-Ament with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the draw-ing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.
-- It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage of SOME, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.'
-- The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait for their carriage a quarter of an hour after everybody else was gone, which gave them time to see how heartily they were wished away by some of the family.
-- But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her im-patience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship till we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
-- However, upon second thoughts I took it away; and wrapping all this in a piece of canvas, I began to think of making another raft; but while I was preparing this, I found the sky overcast, and the wind began to rise, and in a quarter of an hour it blew a fresh gale from the shore.
-- Then I took some and steeped it an hour or two in some rum, and resolved to take a dose of it when I lay down; and lastly., I burnt some upon a pan of coals, and held my nose close over the smoke of it as long as I could bear it, as well for the heat as almost for suffocation.
-- I found presently it flew up into my head violently; but I fell into a sound sleep, and waked no more till, by the sun, it must necessarily be near three o'clock in the afternoon the next day - nay, to this hour I am partly of opinion that I slept all the next day and night, and till almost three the day af-ter; for otherwise I know not how I should lose a day out of my reckoning in the days of the week, as it appeared some years after I had done; for if I had lost it by crossing and re-crossing the line, I should have lost more than one day; but certainly I lost a day in my account, and never knew which way.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His kindness was not confined to words; for within an hour after he left them, a large basket full of garden stuff and fruit arrived from the park, which was followed before the end of the day by a present of game.
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