debt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 债， 债务，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an immense debt he owed to this noble lady and her friends!From Lord Glenarvan, down to the lowest sailor on board, how all had struggled and suffered for him!Harry Grant expressed his gratitude with such simplicity and nobleness, his manly face suffused with pure and sweet emotion, that the whole crew felt amply recompensed for the trials they had undergone.
-- She told him of the young hero's exploits, and how the lad had already paid back part of the paternal debt to Lord Glenarvan.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am also ready to promise to repay my debt in three months' time, and I will keep my word, even if I have to live on bread and water.
-- This millionaire, having but just discarded the old gaiters of his professor, could not even understand that the noble young man slaving away at his lessons was not asking for charitable help, but for his right-ful due, though the debt was not a legal one; that, correctly speaking, he was not asking for anything, but it was merely his friends who had thought fit to bestir themselves on his behalf.
-- According to my calculations, the sum spent on me was very considerably under ten thousand roubles, but I decided on that sum, and you must admit that in paying a debt I could not offer Mr. Burdovsky more, however kindly disposed I might be towards him; delicacy forbids it; I should seem to be offering him charity instead of rightful payment.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in Elis to whom there was a debt owing should come; and the leading Pylians assembled to divide the spoils.
-- My father chose a herd of cattle and a great flock of sheep three hundred in all and he took their shepherds with him, for there was a great debt due to him in Elis, to wit four horses, winners of prizes.
-- I greatly fear that the Achaeans will pay us their debt of yesterday in full, for there is one abiding at their ships who is never weary of battle, and who will not hold aloof much longer.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But here is a debt to pay before I go.'
-- 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.
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：
-- 'I cannot permit you to accuse Uncas of want of judgment or of skill,' said Duncan; 'he saved my life in the coolest and readiest manner, and he has made a friend who never will require to be reminded of the debt he owes.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They worked for meadow, for wood, for potatoe seed, and they were almost all in debt to the office.
-- Not only did the son not reform, but contracted another debt of a thousand rubles, and told his father that he did not care if he was driven from the house, since life at home was torture to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Immensely rich, sir; and I could, without missing it, pay the national debt of France."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you will undertake to let the young man know that he is free, and to tell him that you were employed to compound for the debt by some one whom you are not at liberty to name, you will not only do me a service, but may do him one, and his sister also.'
-- 'The fact is, besides, Arthur,' said Mr Meagles, the old cloud coming over his face, 'that my son-in-law is already in debt again, and that I suppose I must clear him again.
-- Make me as happy as I can be in leaving you here, by saying nothing to-night, and letting me go away with the hope that you will think of it kindly; and that for my sake not for yours, for mine, for nobody's but mine! you will give me the greatest joy I can experience on earth, the joy of knowing that I have been serviceable to you, and that I have paid some little of the great debt of my affection and gratitude.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should like to know that John was firmly established in some good business, which gave him an in-come large enough to keep free from debt and make Meg comfortable.
-- 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.
-- At efening I shall gif a little lesson with much glad-ness, for look you, Mees Marsch, I haf this debt to pay.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Darcy often - acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr. Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to HIM, as of his affection to myself.'
-- He was declared to be in debt to every tradesman in the place, and his intrigues, all honoured with the title of se-duction, had been extended into every tradesman's family.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I asked him what countryman he was: and he said, Espagniole; and be-ing a little recovered, let me know, by all the signs he could possibly make, how much he was in my debt for his deliv-erance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two thousand a year without debt or drawback except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?
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