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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The departure once resolved upon, there was not an hour to be lost.
-- From the hour she reached the steamboat quay at Glasgow, she completely monopolized the public attention.
-- He had been poring over it for more than an hour when Glenarvan interrupted him and said:"Paganel!I appeal to your sagacity.
-- For about an hour longer the CATAPEZ kept wandering about almost at haphazard, though always getting higher up the mountains.
-- "Wait one hour longer."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of attaching her; and his behaviour declared his wishes to be in that respect as earnest, as his abilities were strong.
-- In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.
-- Their dress was very smart, their manners very civil, they were delighted with the house, and in raptures with the furniture, and they happened to be so doatingly fond of children that Lady Middleton's good opinion was engaged in their favour before they had been an hour at the Park.
-- Not so the Miss Steeles. They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted. And to be better acquainted therefore, Elinor soon found was their inevitable lot, for as Sir John was entirely on the side of the Miss Steeles, their party would be too strong for opposition, and that kind of intimacy must be submitted to, which consists of sitting an hour or two together in the same room almost every day.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was glad when the short half hour was over and the wheels began to whirr again.
-- By three o'clock she was sure it must be six, and by four it seemed as if they had forgotten to note the hour and were letting all work overtime.
-- At last the noon hour was dangerously near, and she had done nothing.
-- Thus the first hour of misgiving was swept away.
-- Just a shade of a thought of the hour entered Carrie's head, but there was no household law to govern her now.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.
-- She said she wouldn't let me go by myself, but her hus-band would be in by and by, maybe in a hour and a half, and she'd send him along with me.
-- Jim never asked no questions, he never said a word; but the way he worked for the next half an hour showed about how he was scared.
-- Well, about an hour after dark we come along down in our trading-scow, and it was so dark we didn't notice the wreck till we was right on it; and so WE saddle-baggsed; but all of us was saved but Bill Whipple and oh, he WAS the best cretur ! I most wish 't it had been me, I do.'
-- So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says: 'Can you spell, Buck?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He called down angrily: "What do you want at this hour of night?"
-- In less than an hour the feet were finished, two slender, nimble little feet, strong and quick, modeled as if by an artist's hands.
-- "The hour is late!"
-- In a quarter of an hour the coach was back.
-- About an hour ago, we met an old wolf on the road.
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