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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them.
-- He's been out three days now, and the warders watch every road and every station, but they've had no sight of him yet.
-- 'It was my game to watch Stapleton.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a steel watch chain and from this chain there hung a silver Geneva watch.
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- (I found out afterwards that they had long kept a watch upon me.)
-- Some of her guests suspected that she must be ill; but concluded at last that she was expecting something, for she continued to look at her watch impatiently and unceasingly; she was most absent and strange.
-- It appeared that, in the interests of the prince, he had made arrange-ments in Moscow for a careful watch to be kept upon the prince's business affairs, and especially upon Salaskin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the women each of them light a great fire in her house, and let watch be safely kept lest the town be entered by surprise while the host is outside.
-- We shall find them with the watch outside the gates, for it was there I said that we would meet them.'
-- As sheep dogs that watch their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain for-est towards them forthwith there is a hue and cry of dogs and men, and slumber is broken even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked night, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans.
-- 'Watch on, my children,' said he, 'and let not sleep get hold upon you, lest our enemies triumph over us.'
-- Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There's the back!Just watch them doors!I say !"
-- It was the strangest thing in the world to see it in the flicker of the flashes soft and white, and then to watch it fade like a wreath of smoke and vanish.
-- I turned down the gas again, stepped out of the window on the cistern cover, very softly lowered the sash, and sat down, secure and invisible, but quivering with anger, to watch events.
-- Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly.
-- I proposed to make my way into the house, secrete myself upstairs, watch my opportunity, and when everything was quiet, rummage out a wig, mask, spectacles, and costume, and go into the world, perhaps a grotesque but still a credible figure.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd watch my goings carefully, if I were you.
-- Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring; to kill and bite, bite deep and rich, sucking the blood.
-- He is there,' I pointed upward, 'where he can watch you.
-- Now and then some Beast-creature would watch me, and go leaping off when I called to it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was useless to look down, for he could only see the topsides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann the Kite balancing and wheeling as he kept watch over the jungle waiting for things to die.
-- I have told the bats to watch through the dark time.
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