obligation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 义务， 责任，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have laid me under an obligation to you for life in two senses,' said his late client, taking his hand.
-- 'And so,' said Mr. Lorry, who could not sufficiently -admire the bride, and who had been moving round her to take in every point of her quiet, pretty dress; 'and so it was for this, my sweet Lucie, that I brought you across the Channel, such a baby' Lord bless me' How little I thought what I was doing!How lightly I valued the obligation I was conferring on my friend Mr.
-- That night it was the fourteenth of August he sat up late, and wrote two fervent letters; one was to Lucie, ex-plaining the strong obligation he was under to go to Paris, and showing her, at length, the reasons that he had, for feel-ing confident that he could become involved in no personal danger there; the other was to the Doctor, confiding Lucie and their dear child to his care, and dwelling on the same topics with the strongest assurances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a moral obligation of a sort.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout had no money, but willingly accepted Fix's invitation in the hope of returning the obligation at some future time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great relief to me todo this, and to enlarge on the obligation that I owed to Steerforthfor his care of me when I was unable to take care of myself.
-- 'That,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'that, at least, is my view, my dear Mr.Copperfield and Mr. Traddles, of the obligation which I took uponmyself when I repeated the irrevocable words, "I, Emma, take thee,Wilkins."
-- Mr. Micawber mayhave occasionally given a bill without consulting me, or he may 578have misled me as to the period when that obligation wouldbecome due.
-- If you will advise me,knowing my feeble powers such as they are, how you think it willbe best to exert them in a dilemma so unwonted, you will addanother friendly obligation to the many you have already renderedme.
-- If that were so, my sacrificewas nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and everypoor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To walk by the side of this child, and talk to and question her, was the most natu-ral thing in the world, or would have been the most natural, had she been acting just then without design; and by this means the others were still able to keep ahead, without any obligation of waiting for her.
-- Mr. Elton was all obligation and cheerfulness; he was so very cheerful in his civilities indeed, that she began to think he must have received a different account of Har-riet from what had reached her.
-- 'His father's marriage,' he said, 'had been the wisest measure, ev-ery friend must rejoice in it; and the family from whom he had received such a blessing must be ever considered as hav-ing conferred the highest obligation on him.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
-- I took it upon myself to impress Biddy (and through Biddy, Joe) with the grave obligation I considered my friends under, to know nothing and say nothing about the maker of my fortune.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- I made bold to tell her majesty, 'that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which ob-ligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, though without any other authority than I have given you, and even without the knowledge of any other person than yourself and myself, I ask you to depart from this place to-night, under an obligation never to return to it.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation.
-- 'And if you will be so good, in your better knowledge of the family, as to communicate freely with me, and to point out to me any means by which you think I may be delicately and really useful to Little Dorrit, I shall feel under an obligation to you.'
-- It showed that the gentleman, highly connected, and not a mere workman, would be under an obligation to him.
-- Clennam saw now, that he had as much hope of getting assistance out of the Portrait as out of the Patriarch; but he said nevertheless:'Mr Casby, could you, for the satisfaction of the friends I have mentioned, and under any obligation of secrecy that you may consider it your duty to impose, give me any information at all touching Miss Wade?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a circum-stance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: 'In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.
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