Watch

(noun.) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe.

(noun.) a small portable timepiece.

(noun.) a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty.

(noun.) the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty.

(verb.) observe with attention; 'They watched as the murderer was executed'.

(verb.) observe or determine by looking; 'Watch how the dog chases the cats away'.

(verb.) look attentively; 'watch a basketball game'.

(verb.) see or watch; 'view a show on television'; 'This program will be seen all over the world'; 'view an exhibition'; 'Catch a show on Broadway'; 'see a movie'.

(verb.) be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful; 'Watch out for pickpockets!'.

(verb.) follow with the eyes or the mind; 'Keep an eye on the baby, please!'; 'The world is watching Sarajevo'; 'She followed the men with the binoculars'.

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• Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• So we kept our watch together in silence. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Sir Percival hesitated and looked at his watch. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I have got them still--the watch goes beautifully. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He has a watch and a chain and a ring and a breast-pin and a handsome suit of clothes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I had never heard of the institution, and my face must have proclaimed as much, for Sherlock Holmes pulled out his watch. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He knew they all were watching him, too, but he watched only Pablo. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The swinging caught his attention, and he watched it with more and more interest. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Affery, who had watched her in terror, darted to her in the middle of the room, caught hold of her dress, and went on her knees to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She watched him whenever they were at Rosings, and whenever he came to Hunsford; but without much success. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They watched the plane moving high and silvery and steady in the sunlight. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I'm quick to take this fright, I know, and my head is summ'at light with wearying and watching. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You have been watching us from behind that bush? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is a priest of Juno that stands before me, watching late and lone at a shrine in an Argive temple. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He knew they all were watching him, too, but he watched only Pablo. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Therein that first classe I was, thence I had been watching him; but there I could not find courage to await his approach. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His last effort was made, when we had looked at our watches, and had got on our legs previous to taking leave. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Without any mention of the various attempts to produce such a device, let us, as briefly as possible, describe the means used in most watches of American manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The idea of a Supreme Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Watch-cases, clock-cases, and dial-plates for clocks and watches, have been prohibited to be exported. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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