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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
-- I'm sure it's no pleasure to me to go today, but it's a debt we owe society, and there's no one to pay it but you and me.
-- Besides, you owe something to John as well as to the babies.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Pr脙娄torians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are to say,' said Mr. Brownlow, glancing steadily at Grimwig; 'you are to say that you have brought those books back; and that you have come to pay the four pound ten I owe him.
-- I owe it, alike to others, and to myself.'
-- I owe it to myself, that I, a friendless, portionless, girl, with a blight upon my name, should not give your friends reason to suspect that I had sordidly yielded to your first passion, and fastened myself, a clog, on all your hopes and projects.
-- I owe it to you and yours, to prevent you from opposing, in the warmth of your generous nature, this great obstacle to your progress in the world.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure we owe him no such particular civility as to be obliged to say nothing HE may not like to hear.'
-- This is not the sort of happi-ness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife; but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
-- But your FAMILY owe me nothing.
-- Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth!What do I not owe you!You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous.
-- How little did you tell me of what passed at Pemberley and Lambton!I owe all that I know of it to another, not to you.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the only voyage which I may say was success-ful in all my adventures, which I owe to the integrity and honesty of my friend the captain; under whom also I got a competent knowledge of the mathematics and the rules of navigation, learned how to keep an account of the ship's course, take an observation, and, in short, to understand some things that were needful to be understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight to learn; and, in a word, this voyage made me both a sailor and a merchant; for I brought home five pounds nine ounces of gold-dust for my adventure, which yielded me in London, at my return, almost 300 pounds; and this filled me with those aspiring thoughts which have since so completed my ruin.
-- He gave me all the assurances that the invention or faith of man could devise that he would comply with these most reasonable demands, and besides would owe his life to me, and acknowledge it upon all occasions as long as he lived.
-- Any one may guess how readily such a proposal would be accepted by men in their condition; they fell down on their knees to the captain, and promised, with the deep-est imprecations, that they would be faithful to him to the last drop, and that they should owe their lives to him, and would go with him all over the world; that they would own him as a father to them as long as they lived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I must say this: that you owe no particular gratitude to him, nor attention to his wishes; for we very well know that if he could, he would have left almost everything in the world to THEM."
-- We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that."
-- "No," replied he, with sudden consciousness, "not to find it in YOU; for I cannot be ignorant that to you, to your goodness, I owe it all. I feel it I would express it if I could but, as you well know, I am no orator."
-- I do assure you that you owe it entirely, at least almost entirely, to your own merit, and Colonel Brandon's discernment of it.
-- As a friend of mine, of my family, he may, perhaps indeed I know he HAS, still greater pleasure in bestowing it; but, upon my word, you owe nothing to my solicitation."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I owe the coal man."
-- The next day Hurstwood said: "We owe the grocer five dollars and forty cents this week."
-- "We owe the milkman sixty cents," added Hurstwood.
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