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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It certainly was very surprising, but Paganel found it easier to believe it was some Australian bird imitating the sounds of a Pleyel or Erard, as others do the sounds of a clock or mill.
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：
-- Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baronet.
-- Far away a chiming clock struck out the quarters of the hours, but otherwise a deathly silence lay upon the old house.
-- For half an hour I waited with every nerve on the alert, but there came no other sound save the chiming clock and the rustle of the ivy on the wall.
-- I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room had a blue wall-paper, and was well, almost pretentiously, furnished, with its round table, its divan, and its bronze clock under a glass shade.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now you're here, Mr. Teddy," said she, "I'd be glad if you'd give th' old clock in the parlour a bit of a look.
-- "But I'm really glad to have the clock seen to," he said, seeing a certain hesitation in Mr. Henfrey's manner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere come along then; do come; won't ye come?"
-- The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Sikes, looking up at the clock of St. Andrew's Church, 'hard upon seven!you must step out.
-- As they passed Sunbury Church, the clock struck seven.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the clock struck three, Elizabeth felt that she must go, and very unwillingly said so.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clock struck eight.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave her an excuse, and after encountering quite a number of them, and noting that the clock registered 12.15, she decided that it would be no use to seek further to-day, so she got on a car and went to Lincoln Park.
-- Those who have never heard that solemn voice of the ghostly clock which ticks with awful distinctness, "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," are in no position to judge.
-- The clock of thought ticks out its wish and its denial.
-- The clock outside registered four.
-- He heard the clock ticking audibly and half suspected that he had been dozing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks; and all still again stiller than ever.
-- When I was about the middle I heard the clock begin to strike, so I stops and lis-tens; the sound come faint over the water but clear eleven.
-- There was a clock on the middle of the mantel- piece, with a picture of a town painted on the bot-tom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swing-ing behind it.
-- It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.
-- These sparks was our clock the first one that showed again meant morning was coming, so we hunted a place to hide and tie up right away.
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