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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was returning to Glasgow, and the Isle of Arran already loomed in the distance, when the sailor on watch caught sight of an enormous fish sporting in the wake of the ship.
-- The stranger tried to pull out his watch to see the time; but it was not till he had rummaged through the ninth pocket that he found it.
-- "My dear John," replied Glenarvan, "we leave passengers on board, those dearer to us than life, and who is to watch over them but the devoted captain?"
-- He looked at his watch and found the time was about two in the morning.
-- Holding his watch close to the insect, Paganel saw distinctly that the time was 10 P. M.On rejoining the Major and his three sailors, Glenarvan warned them of the approaching storm, and advised them to secure themselves in their beds of branches as firmly as possible, for there was no doubt that after the first clap of thunder the wind would become unchained, and the OMBU would be violently shaken.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have not observed anyone follow or watch you?'
-- 'Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words he drew his chair closer to the table; and there the two friends sat, in silent expectation, with the watch between them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 20 r. Collins was not left long to the silent contempla-Mtion of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she en-tered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect or their nearer connection.
-- No sooner did he appear than Elizabeth wisely re-solved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed; a resolution the more necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them, and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour when he first came into the room.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This touched me sensibly, for I foresaw that in a few days they would devour all my hopes; that I should be starved, and never be able to raise a crop at all; and what to do I could not tell; however, I resolved not to lose my corn, if possible, though I should watch it night and day.
-- I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
-- We had nothing now to do but to watch for them in the dark, and to fall upon them, so as to make sure work with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was then about twelve o'clock, and she returned to her sister's apartment to wait for the arrival of the apothecary, and to watch by her the rest of the night.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His fingers bore several rings--one, the ever-enduring heavy seal--and from his vest dangled a neat gold watch chain, from which was suspended the secret insignia of the Order of Elks.
-- For the most part he lounged about, dressed in excellent tailored suits of imported goods, a solitaire ring, a fine blue diamond in his tie, a striking vest of some new pattern, and a watch-chain of solid gold, which held a charm of rich design, and a watch of the latest make and engraving.
-- I'll watch you from right here."
-- Then, as if he suddenly remembered, he pulled out his watch and consulted it.
-- Instantly he pulled out his watch and looked.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So somebody's got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them.
-- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.
-- He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane the awful- est old gray-headed nabob in the State.
-- I told Jim all about the time I had jabbering with that woman; and Jim said she was a smart one, and if she was to start af- ter us herself she wouldn't set down and watch a camp fire no, sir, she'd fetch a dog.
-- 'Watchman your grandmother,' I says; 'there ain't noth-ing to watch but the texas and the pilot- house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pi-lot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?'
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