owe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi 欠债, 感激, 由于，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember that you owe everything to me.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would owe everything to her husband, which was what he had always desired too for his future family life.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never send 'em a bill, but when they've harvested they come in and say, 'How much do I owe you, Doctor?'"
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
-- You owe it to the grand old flag to cultivate yourself, To train the mind, keep clean the streets, and ever guard your health.
-- didn't Clif owe him a letter?
-- "You know cussed well I'd do anything to avoid-- Though I want you to distinctly understand it has nothing to do with my campaign for Congress!It's simply that I owe my city the most scrupulous performance of duty in safeguarding it against disease, and the most fearless enforcement--" At the end of his oratory Pickerbaugh telegraphed to Dr. J. C. Long, the Chicago bacteriologist.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for the two roubles I lent you before, you owe me now twenty copecks on the same reckoning in advance.
-- 'I've come to have it out with you, Rodion Romanovitch, my dear fellow!I owe you an explanation and must give it to you,' he continued with a slight smile, just patting Ras-kolnikov's knee.
-- 'Because, as I told you just now, I consider I owe you an explanation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ido not expect that you, who always rebelled against my justauthority, exerted for your benefit and reformation, should owe meany good-will now.
-- 'My dear tutor,' said I (now,really, without any nonsense), 'to whom I owe more obligationsalready than I can ever acknowledge-' 'No, no,' interposed theDoctor.
-- 'Dear Agnes,' I said, 'it is presumptuous for me, who am sopoor in all in which you are so rich- goodness, resolution, all noblequalities- to doubt or direct you; but you know how much I loveyou, and how much I owe you.
-- How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe toAgnes, I will not repeat here.
-- And of all I owe to you,dear aunt.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You owe me no apologies; and every body to whom you might be supposed to owe them, is so perfectly satisfied, so delighted even ' 'You are very kind, but I know what my manners were to you. So cold and artificial! I had always a part to act. It was a life of deceit! I know that I must have disgusted you.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How much do I owe you that man in the corner what's your name?"
-- I also return the money I owe you, which you will excuse my not keeping as a gift.
-- But mind this, I don't wish 'ee to feel you owe me anything.
-- You own that you owe me amends let that be your way of making them."
-- You owe it to me!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When, instead of dining with the English Ambassador," she wrote, "you go to the Rochefides, you owe me an explanation, which I am waiting to hear."
-- "To what happy inspiration do I owe this piece of good fortune, dear Antoinette?"
-- "But I owe no account of myself to any one, especially as I do not try to find out what other people do of a night."
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