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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At any rate, whatever were my wanderings, the clock chimed twelve as I entered the house; and that gave exactly an hour for every mile of the usual way from Wuthering Heights.
-- The clock is on the stroke of eleven, sir.
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