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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, I want to sit here and watch the sunset.
-- She rose from her seat to watch him.
-- But she was a widow and shehad to watch her behavior.
-- "We need you to watch thedarkies with the refreshments.
-- Scarlett and Maybelle Merriwether Picard had been given permission to leave the hospital and watch the men goout, because Uncle Henry Hamilton and Grandpa Merriwether were in the Home Guard, and they stood with Mrs.Meade, pressed in the crowd, tiptoeing to get a better view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,--the other was on the table near her hand,--her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.
-- It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
-- It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
-- All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy.
-- So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree.
-- Then he pulled him out of the river, and said to him, as he got upon the bank, 'Your brothers have set watch to kill you, if they find you in the kingdom.'
-- There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.
-- And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.
-- The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, but-tered, and salted, and ready to be served.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king's smith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thir-ty padlocks.
-- For he argued thus: 'that the two half brains being left to debate the matter between themselves within the space of one skull, would soon come to a good understanding, and produce that moderation, as well as regularity of thinking, so much to be wished for in the heads of those, who imagine they come into the world only to watch and govern its motion: and as to the differ-ence of brains, in quantity or quality, among those who are directors in faction, the doctor assured us, from his own knowledge, that 'it was a perfect trifle.'
-- They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might not escape.
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her.
-- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine.
-- She can shut herself up within herself, and think as I have often known her sit and watch the fire for an hour at a stretch.'
-- It became the business of Mrs. Sparsit's life, to look up at her staircase, and to watch Louisa coming down.
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