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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just tell me what it all means, Watson, and I'll owe you more than ever I can hope to pay.'
-- 'I owe him nothing, and his friends are not mine.
-- 'I have already said that I owe a great deal to his kindness.
-- We owe you a deep apology, Sir Henry, for having exposed you to this fright.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know,' Adelaida continued, 'you owe us a descrip-tion of the Basle picture; but first I wish to hear how you fell in love.
-- 'Here are twenty-five roubles, Marfa Borisovna ... it is all that I can give ... and I owe even these to the prince's gener-osity my noble friend.
-- 'P.S. The two hundred roubles I owe you shall certainly be repaid in time.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa, we owe thee, I think, our lives Bagheera and I.'
-- 'But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life.
-- I have some skill in these [he held out his hands], and if ever thou art in a trap, I may pay the debt which I owe to thee, to Bagheera, and to Baloo, here.
-- I owe him for some gulls' eggs.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You forget the buck at your feet!or, may we not owe their visit to the dead colt?
-- In the meanwhile, Hawkeye, who looked on this burst of youthful feeling with a cool but kind regard made the following reply: 'Life is an obligation which friends often owe each oth-er in the wilderness.
-- Go, brave men, we owe you too much already; let us no longer involve you in our hapless fortunes!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You owe it to yourself and you owe it to the children.'
-- I saw myself calling on Charles Strickland and sending in my card; I saw him come into the room, holding it between finger and thumb:"To what do I owe this honour?"
-- You owe me a dinner, you know."
-- "I've done pretty well," he said, "but the strange thing is that I owe it all to one piece of luck."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the spokeswoman, 'I wish you'd give her a little of your advice, Mrs Jiniwin' Mrs Quilp had been a Miss Jiniwin it should be observed 'nobody knows better than you, ma'am, what us women owe to ourselves.'
-- 'Owe indeed, ma'am!'
-- In short, I owe him a grudge.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She who has been so good to me and to whom I owe my life!Can there be a worse or more heartless boy than I am anywhere?"
-- "And to think you did not want to come!To think that even yesterday the idea came into your head to return home to see your Fairy and to start studying again!If today you are free from pencils and books and school, you owe it to me, to my advice, to my care.
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