watchful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 注意的， 警惕的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watchful guard, with his right hand at the stock of 12 A tale of two citieshis raised blunderbuss, his left at the barrel, and his eye on the horseman, answered curtly, 'Sir.'
-- Madame Defarge was a stout wom-an of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong features, and great composure of man-ner.
-- The resemblance was not lessened by the accidental circumstance, that the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of everything else in Fleet-street.
-- How the virtuous servant, Cly, was his friend and partner, and was worthy to be; how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his making those 104 A tale of two citiespassages across the Channel though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose.
-- He knew that under the overthrown government he had been a spy upon Saint Antoine and Defarge's wine-shop; had re-ceived from the watchful police such heads of information concerning Doctor Manette's imprisonment, release, and history, as should serve him for an introduction to familiar conversation with the Defarges; and tried them on Ma-dame Defarge, and had broken down with them signally.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this may startle you--oh, you had a lot of crank notions when you were in school, but you aren't the only one that does some thinking for himself!--sometimes I believe it'd be better for the general health situation if there weren't any public health departments at all, because they get a lot of people into the habit of going to free clinics instead of to private physicians, and cut down the earnings of the doctors and reduce their number, so there are less of us to keep a watchful eye on sickness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw my mother look at mesometimes, and then glance at the watchful Miss Murdstone, andthen look down or look away.
-- But it was in reference to thetone in which he had spoken of 'that sort of people,' that MissDartle, whose sparkling eyes had been watchful of us, now brokein again.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own sit-uation.
-- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression,--most likely when all the things about her had become transfixed,--and it looked as if nothing could ever lift it up again.
-- She looked at me, and looked at Sarah, and Sarah's countenance wrung out of her watchful face a cruel smile.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A thief!A plunderer!A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative!Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'
-- Herself again a wife a mother lovingly watchful of her children, ever careful that they should have a childhood of the mind no less than a childhood of the body, as knowing it to be even a more beautiful thing, and a possession, any hoarded scrap of which, is a blessing and happiness to the wisest?
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：
-- Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not shine in company; he had not very much to say for himself; he was a reserved man, with a broad, overhanging, watchful head, that particular kind of dull red colour in his cheeks which is rather stale than fresh, and a somewhat uneasy expression about his coat-cuffs, as if they were in his confidence, and had reasons for being anxious to hide his hands.
-- 'Ask me not,' said Flora, 'if I love him still or if he still loves me or what the end is to be or when, we are surrounded by watchful eyes and it may be that we are destined to pine asunder it may be never more to be reunited not a word not a breath not a look to betray us all must be secret as the tomb wonder not therefore that even if I should seem comparatively cold to Arthur or Arthur should seem comparatively cold to me we have fatal reasons it is enough if we understand them hush!'
-- Little Dorrit's interest in the fair subject of this easily accepted belief was too earnest and watchful to fail in accurate observation.
-- But when I thought it over a little, I felt more hopeful for your knowing at once that I had only been watchful for you, and had only noticed what I think I have noticed, because I was quickened by your interest in it.
-- 'She is watchful enough, I dare say.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter, but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned.
-- Every thing that the most zealous affection, the most solicitous care could do to render her comfortable, was the office of each watchful companion, and each found their reward in her bodily ease, and her calmness of spirits.
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