watch n. 1.表;船钟。 2.值夜,值班;守夜;看守人;哨兵。 3.看守,监视;注意;警戒。 4.【航海】(每4小时轮换的)值班(时间);〔集合词〕值班人员,一班。 5.〔古语〕更〔犹太人把一夜分作 first watch 首更, middle watch 中更, morning watch 末更;罗马人分为 first [evening] watch 头更, second [midnight] watch 二更, third [cock crowing] watch 三更, fourth [morning] watch 四更〕。 be on [ off] watch 值班[不值班]。 be on the watch for 看守着,监视着,提防着;守候着。 call the watch 召集值班人。 in the night watches = in the watches of the night 在睡不着的夜里。 keep (a) watch 看守;值班。 keep watch over 守护;密切注意。 pass as [like] a watch in the night 立刻被忘记掉。 through the silent watches of the night 更深夜静的时候。 watch and ward 昼夜警戒。 watch and watch 【航海】四小时轮流值班,半舷值班。 vt. 1.注视;注意,留心观察。 2.看守,监视。 3.守候(机会等) (for)。 vi. 1.注视,看着;密切注意。 2.警戒,守卫,监视。 3.守候,期待 (for)。 4.〔古语〕守夜;通夜看护;【宗教】守夜[作通宵祈祷]。 watch and say nothing 静观不语。 watch all night at the bedside of a patient 在病人床边通宵侍候。 A watched pot never boils. 见 pot 条。 be closely watched 被严密监视。 if you don't watch it 〔俚语〕你要是不小心。 watch one's time 等待时机。 watch out 1. 〔美俚〕监视,警戒。 2. 密切注视 (for) ( W- out for cars. 当心车辆)。 watch over 监视;留心,注视;看护,照顾。 adj. -able 值得注意[注视]的。
Either saint antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone or saint antoine was on the watch for its disappearance ; howbeit , the saint took courage to lounge in , very shortly afterwards , and the wine - shop recovered its habitual aspect 圣安托万人或者是有一种本能,意识到那讨厌的装饰已经不见了,或者是一直观察着等待着那装饰的消失。总而言之,不一会儿工夫人们已鼓起勇气往店里走来,酒店又恢复了往日的景象。
The duke was therefore sadly grieved the day his friends , constantly on the watch for scandalous indiscretions on the part of the young woman with whom he was , they said , compromising himself , called to inform him , indeed to prove to him that at those times when she could count on his not appearing , she was in the habit of receiving other visitors , and that these visitors often stayed until the following morning 公爵的朋友们总是说公爵和玛格丽特在一起有损公爵的名誉,他们不断地监视她的行动,想抓住她行为不端的证据。一天,他们来告诉公爵,并向他证实,玛格丽特在拿准公爵不会去看她的时候,接待了别人,而且这种接待往往一直要延续到第二天。公爵知道后心里非常痛苦。