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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, Mrs. Sparsit kept unwinking watch and ward.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generally there were one or two English or French gunboats, to watch and protect the fisheries in the offing.
-- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.
-- My ear was keenly on the watch to catch the sound of a spring.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Connie crouched to watch in a sort of ecstasy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a window, seeming to watch the reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice.
-- The observer stood with her hand upon her own bosom, looking at the girl, as one afflicted with a diseased part might curiously watch the dissection and exposition of an analogous case.
-- On her little table lay two or three books, her handkerchief, a pair of steel spectacles newly taken off, and an old-fashioned gold watch in a heavy double case.
-- 'I never knew my father to show so much anxiety on any subject, as that his watch should be sent straight to you.'
-- Remember, I saw his face when he gave the watch into my keeping, and struggled to express that he sent it as a token you would understand, to you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't dance any-more, but as soon as supper is over, watch for Hannah and tell me the minute she comes.'
-- Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.
-- 'Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and nev-er think it is impossible to conquer your fault,' said Mrs. March, drawing the blowzy head to her shoulder and kiss-ing the wet cheek so tenderly that Jo cried even harder.
-- The knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear and strengthened her resolution to cure it, though forty years seemed rather a long time to watch and pray to a girl of fifteen.
-- 'I hope you will be a great deal better, dear, but you must keep watch over your 'bosom enemy', as father calls it, or it may sadden, if not spoil your life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too expensive and jolly, again thought I, pausing one moment to watch the broad glare in the street, and hear the sounds of the tinkling glasses within.
-- Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.
-- Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
-- So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
-- But the next time you have a chance, watch him; and you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these, and other muttered reflections of the like nature, the Jew once more deposited the watch in its place of safety.
-- 'What do you watch me for?
-- The merry old gentleman, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in his pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imitation of the manner in which old gentlemen walk about the streets any hour in the day.
-- He soon fell into a gentle doze, from which he was awakened by the light of a candle: which, being brought near the bed, showed him a gentleman with a very large and loud-ticking gold watch in his hand, who felt his pulse, and said he was a great deal better.
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