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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brother, the watch was long and cold.
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
-- Then Kerick sat down on the moss and pulled out a heavy pewter watch and let the drove cool off for thirty minutes, and Kotick could hear the fog-dew dripping off the brim of his cap.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon the rock, where I suppose a major of the Sixtieth would wish to keep us company.'
-- A long and anxious watch succeeded, but without any further evidences of a renewed attack; and Duncan began to hope that their fire had proved more fatal than was sup-posed, and that their enemies had been effectually repulsed.
-- 'No, no; instead of throwing away strength and opportunity by crossing to the fort, we lay by, under the bank of the Hud-son, waiting to watch the movements of the Hurons.'
-- Duncan had prepared himself to pass the night in watchfulness near them, just without the ruin, but the scout, perceiving his intention, pointed toward Chingachgook, as he coolly disposed his own person on the grass, and said: 'The eyes of a white man are too heavy and too blind for such a watch as this!The Mohican will be our sentinel, therefore let us sleep.'
-- In its front might be seen the scattered sentinels, who held a weary watch against their numerous foes; and within the walls themselves, the travelers looked down upon men still drowsy with a night of vigilance.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the policeman in all our hearts, set there to watch that we do not break its laws.
-- Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
-- It may be that in order to realise the romance of life you must have something of the actor in you; and, capable of standing outside yourself, you must be able to watch your actions with an interest at once detached and absorbed.
-- Then a strange uneasiness would seize the Captain; he would look at his watch and sigh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must mention, however, a note-book and a watch which Gideon Spilett had kept, doubtless by inadvertence, not a weapon, not a tool, not even a pocket-knife; for while in the car they had thrown out everything to lighten the balloon.
-- But watch him."
-- The engineer now wound it up, and ascertaining by the height of the sun that it must be about nine o'clock in the morning, he put his watch at that hour.
-- "Consequently, your watch is set by the meridian of that town, which is almost that of Washington?"
-- In fact, the moment when this shadow would reach its minimum of length would be exactly twelve o'clock, and it would be enough to watch the extremity of the shadow, so as to ascertain the instant when, alter having successively diminished, it began to lengthen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- None are so anxious as those who watch and wait; at these times, mournful fancies came flocking on her mind, in crowds.
-- She would take her station here, at dusk, and watch the people as they passed up and down the street, or appeared at the windows of the opposite houses; wondering whether those rooms were as lonesome as that in which she sat, and whether those people felt it company to see her sitting there, as she did only to see them look out and draw in their heads again.
-- 'I'm sorry I've got an appointment in the city,' said Quilp, looking at his watch with perfect self-possession, 'or I should have been very glad to have spent half an hour with you while you composed yourself, very glad.'
-- When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again!Yes, there he was, looking more obstinate than ever; and alone in the chaise, keeping a steady watch upon his every wink, sat Mr Abel, who, lifting up his eyes by chance and seeing Kit pass by, nodded to him as though he would have nodded his head off.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "These girls are rogues," said the clerk, and to sustain his opinion that Maslova was the chief culprit, he related how one of those girls once stole a watch from a friend of his.
-- But I watch over them, and like the occupation.
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