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：
-- 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.
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：
-- No one is under any obligation to you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing but the respect and obligation I owe to you, sir 'As it was plain that Sampson was bent on a complimentary harangue, unless he received a timely interruption, Mr Quilp politely tapped him on the crown of his head with the little saucepan, and requested that he would be so obliging as to hold his peace.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this seemed strange to Nekhludoff, and strangest of all was that he was obliged to thank and feel himself under obligation to the inspector and warden.
-- Nekhludoff offered to marry her out of magnanimity, and the obligation for the past, but Simonson loved her as she was now, and loved her simply because he loved her.
-- If such a good man as Simonson, who was under no obligation to her, wished to join his fate to hers, then his own sacrifice was no longer so important.
-- "I don't know which of us is under greater obligation to the other.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the paradisal entry into pure, single being, the individual soul taking precedence over love and desire for union, stronger than any pangs of emotion, a lovely state of free proud singleness, which accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could FEEL gratitude, I would now thank you.
-- 'I must now mention a circumstance which I would wish to forget myself, and which no obligation less than the pres-ent should induce me to unfold to any human being.
-- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
-- He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little ad-vantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother-in-law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, when I let him know my reason, he owned it to be just, and offered me this medium, that he would give the boy an obligation to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian: upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let the captain have him.
-- This observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was be-fore; and I made no doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies when they were taken in war.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself; but Colonel Brandon, on motives of equal delicacy, declining it likewise, still seemed so desirous of its being given through her means, that she would not on any account make farther opposition.
-- So far was she, at the same time, from any backwardness to give Elinor that credit which Edward WOULD give her, that she spoke of her friendship for them both with the most grateful warmth, was ready to own all their obligation to her, and openly declared that no exertion for their good on Miss Dashwood's part, either present or future, would ever surprise her, for she believed her capable of doing any thing in the world for those she really valued.
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