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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he heard a clock strike.
-- Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ten minutes past seven.
-- Suddenly a clock somewhere struck once.
-- All those seven years I've wound that clock every week, and if I forgot it she would always remind me.
-- 'My landlady's clock has just struck 芒聙娄 I heard it myself芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was remarked that the clock began tostrike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
-- In his attempts tobe particularly lucid, Mr. Barkis was so extremely mysterious that Imight have stood looking in his face for an hour, and mostassuredly should have got as much information out of it as out ofthe face of a clock that had stopped, but for Peggotty's calling meaway.
-- The counting-house clock was at half-past twelve, and there wasgeneral preparation for going to dinner, when Mr. Quinion tappedat the counting-house window, and beckoned to me to go in.
-- Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and theDutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice asloud as usual.
-- Although I left the office at half-past three,and was prowling about the place of appointment within a fewminutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a fullquarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's,Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull theprivate bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr.Waterbrook's house.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- To the shepherd, the note of the sheep-bell, like the ticking of the clock to other people, is a chronic sound that only makes itself noticed by ceasing or altering in some unusual manner from the well-known idle twinkle which signifies to the accustomed ear, however distant, that all is well in the fold.
-- It was a neighbouring clock striking ten.
-- From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.
-- The clock ticked on.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hearth is always so clean and neat that it is evident that a fire is only kindled there on great occasions; the stone chimney-piece is adorned by a couple of vases filled with faded artificial flowers imprisoned under glass shades, on either side of a bluish marble clock in the very worst taste.
-- The seven people thus assembled bade each other good- morning, and took their places at the table; the clock struck ten, and the student's footstep was heard outside.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is so late why, it is actually ten o'clock," as the clock with coughing and tinny thumps marked the hour.
-- The clock on the mantel had stopped and she had no way of telling the time but as the heat in the room lessenedand the bright pin points of light grew duller, she pulled the shade aside.
-- Tomorrow tomorrow her brain ticked slowly andmore slowly, like a clock running down, but the clarity of vision persisted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
-- There was a clock in the outer wall of this house.
-- Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
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