watch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 观看； 看守； (for) 窥伺， 等待n. 看管； 表，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no sooner did he touch the clothes than a gold watch slipped from under the fur coat.
-- Even as it was, everyone he met seemed to stare and look round, as if they had nothing to do but to watch him.
-- They think I am ill!They don't know that I can walk, ha-ha-ha!I could see by their eyes that they know all about it!If only I could get downstairs!And what if they have set a watch there policemen!What's this tea?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my motheris out of breath and rests herself in an elbow-chair, I watch herwinding her bright curls round her fingers, and straightening herwaist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look sowell, and is proud of being so pretty.
-- I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidlyattracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, andwhether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.
-- A lane ofsmall boys beyond me, with the same interest in his eye, watch ittoo.
-- 'Try not to do it again, my dear Clara,and keep a watch upon yourself.'
-- He was dressed like any other 187ordinary gentleman, in a loose grey morning coat and waist- coat,and white trousers; and had his watch in his fob, and his money inhis pockets: which he rattled as if he were very proud of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so busy in admiring those soft blue eyes, in talk-ing and listening, and forming all these schemes in the in-betweens, that the evening flew away at a very unusual rate; and the supper-table, which always closed such par-ties, and for which she had been used to sit and watch the due time, was all set out and ready, and moved forwards to the fire, before she was aware.
-- Maple Grove will probably be my model more than it ought to be for we do not at all affect to equal my brother, Mr. Suckling, in income. However, my resolution is taken as to noticing Jane Fairfax. I shall certainly have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can, shall have musi-cal parties to draw out her talents, and shall be constantly on the watch for an eligible situation.
-- 'And I am quite serious too, I assure you,' replied Mrs. Elton gaily, 'in resolving to be always on the watch, and employing my friends to watch also, that nothing really un-exceptionable may pass us.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- As the milking-hour drew near, Oak kept his usual watch upon the cowshed.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- Eugene feared that his neighbor had been taken ill; he went over and looked through the keyhole; the old man was busily engaged in an occupation so singular and so suspicious that Rastignac thought he was only doing a piece of necessary service to society to watch the self- styled vermicelli maker's nocturnal industries.
-- Maxime burst out laughing, and went out, followed by the Countess, who stood at the window to watch him into his carriage; he shook his whip, and made his horse prance.
-- How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared; but I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmo-sphere.
-- I have promised that someone should watch for him and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight.
-- Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves sights which before always yielded me supreme delight so deeply was I engrossed in my oc-cupation.
-- Depart to your home and commence your labours; 178 FrankensteinI shall watch their progress with unutterable anxiety; and fear not but that when you are ready I shall appear.'
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