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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have not been gambling, my kind mother, I owe no one a penny; but if you would preserve the life that you gave me, you must send me the sum I mention.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
-- You, my creator, abhor me; 114 Frankensteinwhat hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?
-- His tale and the feelings he now ex-pressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But I owe it to the Cause I I couldn't think of myself when you were offering so much in gold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as to the condition on which you hold your advancement in life,--namely, that you are not to inquire or discuss to whom you owe it,--you may be very sure that it will never be encroached upon, or even approached, by me, or by any one belonging to me."
-- You have been very good to me, and I owe everything to you.
-- "Mother by adoption," retorted Estella, never departing from the easy grace of her attitude, never raising her voice as the other did, never yielding either to anger or tenderness,--"mother by adoption, I have said that I owe everything to you.
-- "Then," said I, "after all, stopping short here, never taking another penny from him, think what I owe him already!Then again: I am heavily in debt,--very heavily for me, who have now no expectations,--and I have been bred to no calling, and I am fit for nothing."
-- "And Joe and Biddy both, as you have been to church to-day, and are in charity and love with all mankind, receive my humble thanks for all you have done for me, and all I have so ill repaid!And when I say that I am going away within the hour, for I am soon going abroad, and that I shall never rest until I have worked for the money with which you have kept me out of prison, and have sent it to you, don't think, dear Joe and Biddy, that if I could repay it a thousand times over, I suppose I could cancel a farthing of the debt I owe you, or that I would do so if I could!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I well see,' said the king, 'that I owe my thanks to you; can I do anything to please you?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, I fixed upon a resolution, for which it is probable I may incur some censure, and not unjustly; for I confess I owe the preserving of mine eyes, and consequently my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of experience; because, if I had then known the nature of princes and ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts, and their methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should, with great alacrity and readiness, have submitted 85to so easy a punishment.
-- But being afraid the boy might owe me a spite, and well remembering how mischievous all children among us naturally are to sparrows, rabbits, young kittens, and puppy dogs, I fell on my knees, and pointing to the boy, made my master to understand, as well as I could, that I desired his son might be pardoned.
-- To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country: we never parted while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and should be guilty of great ingratitude, if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent, but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did he see them, in the era of its being quite settled that the national dustmen have only to do with one another, and owe no duty to an abstraction called a People, 'taunting the honourable gentleman' with this and with that and with what not, five nights a-week, until the small hours of the morning?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to what phenomenon do we owe this alteration in the needle?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked him what he meant, and he said: 'You don't owe me nothing extra, Sir Clifford, so don't pay me noth-ing extra.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jeremiah, whose eyes glistened as if they saw money, darted a sudden look at the son, which seemed to say, 'I owe you no thanks for this; you have done nothing towards it!'
-- When he awoke, and sprang up causelessly frightened, the words were in his ears, as if her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, to break his rest: 'He withers away in his prison; I wither away in mine; inexorable justice is done; what do I owe on this score!'
-- Now, that Mr Merdle was already at no loss to discover means of occupying even his capital, and of fully employing even his active and vigorous intellect, Bar well knew: but he would venture to suggest that the question arose in his mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a position and so European a reputation did not owe it we would not say to himself, but we would say to Society, to possess himself of such influences as these; and to exercise them we would not say for his own, or for his party's, but we would say for Society's benefit.
-- We owe it as a duty to them and to ourselves, from this moment, not to let them hum not to let them do anything.'
-- O Mrs General, Mrs General, ask me, her father, what I owe her; and hear my testimony touching the life of this slighted little creature from her childhood up!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I owe at least a dozen pickled limes, and I can't pay them, you know, till I have money, for Marmee forbade my having anything charged at the shop.'
-- 'No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him.'
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