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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here I have wasted a day saving your life, and am now wasting an hour explaining myself!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw.
-- The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned.
-- After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All doubts as to the intention of Webb now vanished, and an hour or two of hurried footsteps and anxious faces succeed-ed.
-- The sun had already disappeared, and the woods, suddenly deprived of his light*, were assuming a dusky hue, which keenly reminded him that the hour the savage usually chose for his most barbarous and remorseless acts of ven-geance or hostility, was speedily drawing near.
-- 'twas very natural!Come, friends, let us move our station, and in such fashion, too, as will throw the cunning of a Mingo on a wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the wind in front of Montcalm's marquee, ag'in this hour to-morrow.'
-- Cora!Alice!awake!The hour has come to move!'
-- 'No, no!the life is in his heart yet, and after he has slept awhile he will come to himself, and be a wiser man for it, till the hour of his real time shall come,' returned Hawkeye, casting another oblique glance at the insensible body, while he filled his charger with admirable nicety.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the mean time, Ichabod would carry on his suit with the daughter by the side of the spring under the great elm, or sauntering along in the twilight, that hour so favorable to the lover's eloquence.
-- Books were flung aside without being put away on the shelves, inkstands were over-turned, benches thrown down, and the whole school was turned loose an hour before the usual time, bursting forth like a legion of young imps, yelping and racketing about the green in joy at their early emancipation.
-- The gallant Ichabod now spent at least an extra half hour at his toilet, brushing and furbishing up his best, and indeed only suit of rusty black, and arranging his locks by a bit of broken looking-glass that hung up in the schoolhouse.
-- The hour was as dismal as himself.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When in an hour they crowded into a cab to go home, I strolled idly to my club.
-- I made up my mind to see Strickland the following evening, for I felt instinctively that the hour must be chosen with delicacy.
-- Why didn't you come an hour earlier, and we would have dined together?"
-- In half an hour the Dutchman, looking at his watch, announced that he must go.
-- She never even changed the hour of her errands or sought an alternative route.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not take less than an hour to get to it, and then there was the chance of falling to leeward.
-- Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone.
-- About half-past six, three-quarters of an hour after sunrise, the mist became more transparent.
-- It took more than half an hour to cross from the islet to the land, and he reached the shore several hundred feet from the place which was opposite to the point from which he had started.
-- In an hour the work was finished, and the raft moored to the bank, awaited the turning of the tide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be sufficient to say that the lesson was given that evening passed and night came on that the old man again grew restless and impatient that he quitted the house secretly at the same hour as before and that the child was once more left alone within its gloomy walls.
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