clock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 钟vt. 记录(时间、 速度等) ， 为…计时，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clock was wrong.
-- When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up.
-- All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock pro-claimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes appre-hensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the con-solation of knowing it.
-- He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private lodging in Hang-ing-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
-- Whatever tools they worked with, they worked hard, until the awful striking of the church clock so terrified Young Jerry, that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's.
-- The hands of the clock verging upon the hour of closing the Bank, there was a general set of the current of talkers past Mr. Lorry's desk.
-- As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away.
-- He waited and waited, and the clock struck twelve; but Doctor Manette did not come back.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In reality, such remembrances are rather unpleasant: every sin, every evil thought, may, like a clock with alarm or chimes, be repeated at pleasure; then the question is if we can trust ourselves to give an account of every unbecoming word in our heart and on our lips.
-- The young man wandered up and down the narrow paths, as well as the prescribed limits would allow; the clock struck six; without was heard the horn of a post-boy.
-- Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then the clock in the church-tower was just striking five that Kay said, 'Oh!I feel such a sharp pain in my heart; and now something has got into my eye!'
-- The clock said 'tick!tack!'
-- The pendulum of the great clock went to and fro, and the hands turned, and everything in the room became still older; but they did not observe it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Precisely at five o'clock, before the bronze Peter the First clock had struck the fifth stroke, Alexey Alexandrovitch came in, wearing a white tie and evening coat with two stars, as he had to go out directly after dinner.
-- Fixing her eyes on a bronze clock standing on a table between the windows, she tried to think.
-- Their conversation about horses interested him, but he did not for an instant forget Anna, and could not help listening to the sound of steps in the corridor and looking at the clock on the chimney piece.
-- The marble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all new and expensive.
-- At the moment when she had moved away to the big clock to compare it with her watch, someone drove up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years.
-- The package of notes not being found when five o'clock sounded from the ponderous clock in the "drawing office," the amount was passed to the account of profit and loss.
-- The clock struck seven, and the party offered to suspend the game so that Mr. Fogg might make his preparations for departure.
-- he exclaimed, as the port clock struck.
-- Passepartout was getting nervous, for the hands on the face of the big clock over the judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity.
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