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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This unpardonable carelessness obliged John Mangles to keep a watchful eye ever open.
-- Not a single native was visible; only the watchful sentinels relieving guard at the door of the Ware-Atoua.
-- But they all kept watchful guard on the hut confided to their care.
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：
-- Did the pale, watchful Bar-rymore know more than he cared to say?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His feet, save for socks of irregular open-work, were bare, his big toes were broad, and pricked like the ears of a watchful dog.
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：
-- She was often defeated in her purpose, by encountering their watchful eyes, when it became necessary to feign an alarm she did not feel, and occupy the limb by some gesture of feminine apprehen-sion.
-- He only knew that they had not engaged in the late expedition against William Henry; that, like the Hurons themselves they were allies of Montcalm; and that they maintained an amicable, though a watchful intercourse with the warlike and savage people whom chance had, for a time, brought in such close and dis-agreeable contact with themselves.
-- No oth-er restraint was imposed on the former than the watchful looks of a young Huron, who had placed himself at hand; though an armed warrior leaned against the post that formed one side of the narrow doorway.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very watchful indeed, my friends," replied Harding; "and I beg you to confine your hunting excursions to the neighborhood of Granite House."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these proceedings naturally made the child more watchful and suspicious, and she soon observed that whenever they halted to perform outside a village alehouse or other place, Mr Codlin while he went through his share of the entertainments kept his eye steadily upon her and the old man, or with a show of great friendship and consideration invited the latter to lean upon his arm, and so held him tight until the representation was over and they again went forward.
-- Dick murmured something about never wanting a friend or a bottle to give him, and also gasped forth his favourite allusion to the wing of friendship and its never moulting a feather; but his faculties appeared to be absorbed in the contemplation of Miss Sally Brass, at whom he stared with blank and rueful looks, which delighted the watchful dwarf beyond measure.
-- He was turning into his room again, still growling vengefully, when his eyes met those of the watchful Richard.
-- There were no women or children, as she had seen in other gipsy camps they had passed in their wayfaring, and but one gipsy a tall athletic man, who stood with his arms folded, leaning against a tree at a little distance off, looking now at the fire, and now, under his black eyelashes, at three other men who were there, with a watchful but half-concealed interest in their conversation.
-- Watchful as a lynx, one glance showed the dwarf that he had come on business.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And together the two sisters approached the group of uneasy, watchful common people.
-- Even though he was reading the newspaper closely, he must keep a watchful eye on his external surroundings.
-- It was another of his hateful, watchful characteristics.
-- Whenever Gudrun had tried to talk to him he had shied away unresponsive, looking at her with his watchful dark eyes, but entering into no relation with her.
-- He did not know how, with his full, submerged, watchful eyes, he could look into her and see her, what she was, see her secrets.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fellow turned a keen, watchful face on the inquirer.
-- By the most watchful effort he did get twenty cents more, but it was painful.
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