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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.'
-- 'On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horse-back to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
-- Mortim-er looked at his watch 'in exactly one hour and a quarter.'
-- In one hour and five minutes I meet him at Waterloo Station.
-- 'No, my dear fellow, it is at the hour of action that I turn to you for aid.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I went for an hour or so and saw Nastasia Philipovna, and I never slept a wink all night after.
-- But she recognized his love, on the understanding that she bound herself to nothing whatever, and that she reserved the right to say 'no' up to the very hour of the marriage ceremony.
-- Well, Kolpakoff went back to the barracks, lay down on a camp bedstead, and in a quarter of an hour was dead: you quite understand?
-- He had ordered a fresh bottle when the prince arrived; this took him an hour to drink, and then he had another, and another, during the con-sumption of which he told pretty nearly the whole story of his life.
-- 'In half an hour or so the loss was discovered, and the servants were being put under examination.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans.'
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no es-cape for him when he has once been born.
-- I have heard the voice of the ever-living gods, and the hour of your doom is not yet come.'
-- No man will be of a truer mind than that which has been mine from the hour when you, sir, angered Achilles by taking the girl Briseis from his tent against my judgment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hour was about four, and the ultimate darkness of the night was past.
-- "He's been up this hour or more."
-- It must have been about an hour after this that the front-door bell rang.
-- "Kemp," he said, "I've had no sleep for near three days, except a couple of dozes of an hour or so.
-- It could not have been more than an hour after I took up my position on the mattresses before I noticed the blinds of the windows being drawn, and customers being marched doorward.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time I realised how the lateness of the hour might affect me.
-- 'We have both been so busy that we forgot you until about half an hour ago.'
-- After about an hour I heard Montgomery shouting my name, far away to the north.
-- The minutes passed; the silence lengthened out, and at last after an hour of security my courage began to return to me.
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