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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never assisted at any other representation of George Barnwell, I don't know how long it may usually take; but I know very well that it took until half-past nine o' clock that night, and that when Mr. Wopsle got into Newgate, I thought he never would go to the scaffold, he became so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career.
-- Thither I went, and there I found him, putting the key of his safe down his back as the clock struck.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
-- The water you seek springs from a well in an enchanted castle; and, that you may be able to reach it in safety, I will give you an iron wand and two little loaves of bread; strike the iron door of the castle three times with the wand, and it will open: two hungry lions will be lying down inside gap-ing for their prey, but if you throw them the bread they will let you pass; then hasten on to the well, and take some of the Water of Life before the clock strikes twelve; for if you tarry longer the door will shut upon you for ever.'
-- Then she told him that the well that held the Water of Life was in the pal-ace gardens; and bade him make haste, and draw what he wanted before the clock struck twelve.
-- So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.
-- The wind brought the sounds of the church clock to the window.
-- To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
-- The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
-- Put that clock aboard a ship an' pack it off to Norfolk Island, an' the time will go on just the same.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a matter of great doubt to me now, to what violent measures my uncle's impetuosity might have led him, had not the clock struck two, and our old French cook called out to let us know that dinner was on the table.
-- Shortly after we entered a place of communal jurisdiction called Ejulberg, and the clock of which would then have struck twelve, if any Icelandic church had been rich enough to possess so valuable and useful an article.
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：
-- Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the large, hard-featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bending its figured brows upon him with a savage joy when he was behind-hand with his lessons, and which, when it was wound up once a week with an iron handle, used to sound as if it were growling in ferocious anticipation of the miseries into which it would bring him.
-- The church clock struck the breakfast hour as he walked up the little lane by which the garden-gate was approached.
-- To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.
-- Red and white curtained windows, little straw mat, little round table with a tumultuous assemblage of legs underneath, clumsy rush-bottomed chairs, two great red velvet arm-chairs affording plenty of space to be uncomfortable in, bureau, chimney-glass in several pieces pretending to be in one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of France.
-- The clock upon his study table pointed to a few minutes short of twelve, when his attention was called to it by a ringing at the door bell.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.
-- As the clock struck nine and Jo proposed bed, Meg suddenly left her chair and, taking Beth's stool, leaned her elbows on her mother's knee, saying bravely... 'Marmee, I want to 'fess'.'
-- I didn't forget to cover the holders, and I wind the clock and air the rooms every day.
-- All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum was gone a-vis-iting.
-- But night came at last, and every time the clock struck, the sis-ters, still sitting on either side of the bed, looked at each other with brightening eyes, for each hour brought help nearer.
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