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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness or any natural desire to go to rest, but rather to increase his wakefulness, which he showed, at every such indication of the progress of the night, by a suppressed cackling in his throat, and a motion of his shoulders, like one who laughs heartily but the same time slyly and by stealth.
-- Sound it might have been, but long it was not, for he had not been asleep a quarter of an hour when the boy opened the door and thrust in his head, which was like a bundle of badly-picked oakum.
-- In point of fact, it would seem that the waiter felt this wholesome truth, for when he returned for the empty plates and dishes and was informed by Mr Swiveller with dignified carelessness that he would call and settle when he should be passing presently, he displayed some perturbation of spirit and muttered a few remarks about 'payment on delivery' and 'no trust,' and other unpleasant subjects, but was fain to content himself with inquiring at what hour it was likely that the gentleman would call, in order that being presently responsible for the beef, greens, and sundries, he might take to be in the way at the time.
-- 'I'm sorry I've got an appointment in the city,' said Quilp, looking at his watch with perfect self-possession, 'or I should have been very glad to have spent half an hour with you while you composed yourself, very glad.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having breakfasted, Nekhludoff went to the cabinet to see for what hour he was summoned to appear at court, and to answer the Princess' note.
-- The prosecutor spoke at great length, endeavoring on the one hand to remember all those wise sayings which he had prepared for the occasion, and on the other, most important, hand, not to stop for a moment, but to make his speech flow uninterruptedly for an hour and a quarte r. He stopped only once, for a long time swallowing his saliva, but he immediately mastered himself and made up for the lost time by a greater flow of eloquence.
-- There was only three-quarters of an hour left to the latest hour fixed in Clara's appointment.
-- At the usual hour the jailers' whistles were heard in the corridors of the prison; with a rattling of irons the doors of the corridors and cells opened, and the patter of bare feet and the c latter of prison shoes resounded through the corridors; the men and women prisoners washed and dressed, and after going through the morning inspection, proceeded to brew their tea.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal.
-- My fire would not need replenishing for an hour or so.
-- I found the date was indeed today, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o'clock.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I brooded by the hour together over the map, all the details of which I well remembered.
-- But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure.
-- I'll fire a gun half an hour before sundown."
-- For just then, although the sun had still an hour or two to run, all the echoes of the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.
-- For a good hour to come frequent reports shook the island, and balls kept crashing through the woods.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Commander Farragut would not lose a day nor an hour in scouring the seas in which the animal had been sighted.
-- For a whole hour the frigate kept up this pace, without gaining six feet.
-- Half an hour had already passed without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light.
-- For a whole hour was I deep in these reflections, seeking to pierce this mystery so interesting to me.
-- The clock marked the hour of five.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every morning, after breakfast, she went into his room when he was washed and propped up in bed, to spend half an hour with him.
-- As they descended, they heard the Minster bells playing a hymn, when the hour had struck six.
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