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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Henfrey to himself, trudging down the village through the thawing snow; "a man must do a clock at times, sure-ly."
-- In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on his table.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James Park.
-- It was about ten o' clock at night; I had been dining by myself at a restaurant, and having returned to my small apartment, was sitting in my parlour, reading I heard the cracked tinkling of the bell, and, going into the corridor, opened the door.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 4 It was six o' clock in the morning when the settlers, after a hasty breakfast, set out to reach by the shortest way, the western coast of the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted.
-- It was a dirty little box, this counting-house, with nothing in it but an old ricketty desk and two stools, a hat-peg, an ancient almanack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight-day clock which hadn't gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minute-hand had been twisted off for a tooth-pick.
-- Alick has been in such a state of impatience to come!You'd hardly believe that he was dressed before dinner-time and has been looking at the clock and teasing me ever since.
-- If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention.
-- But as the time went on, he manifested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, seeing on the clock that it was five minutes of three, he decided to pass over to a statement of the case.
-- As Nekhludoff was approaching the old general's house the tower clock struck two.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He had till ten, Mother," said I; and just as I said it, our old clock began striking.
-- I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself; and though nothing had actually been taken away except the captain's money-bag and a little silver from the till, I could see at once that we were ruined.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Captain pressed an electric clock three times.
-- The clock marked the hour of five.
-- The clock marked half-past two.
-- Suddenly the clock struck eight.
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：
-- The church clock struck the hours, it seemed to her, in quick succession.
-- The clock had struck four, outside in the night.
-- In her parlour was a long-case clock, and inserted into its dial was a ruddy, round, slant-eyed, joyous-painted face, that wagged over with the most ridiculous ogle when the clock ticked, and back again with the same absurd glad-eye at the next tick.
-- The great chasm of memory from her childhood in the intimate country surroundings of Cossethay and the Marsh Farm she remembered the servant Tilly, who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face and now when she was travelling into the unknown with Birkin, an utter stranger was so great, that it seemed she had no identity, that the child she had been, playing in Cossethay churchyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself.
-- On the great station clock it said six o'clock.
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