arrear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 欠款，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother glances submis- sively at them, shuts the book,and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasksare done.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as her objection was noth-ing but her very great dislike of Mrs. Elton, of which Mr. Weston must already be perfectly aware, it was not worth bringing forward again: it could not be done without a re-proof to him, which would be giving pain to his wife; and she found herself therefore obliged to consent to an arrange-ment which she would have done a great deal to avoid; an arrangement which would probably expose her even to the degradation of being said to be of Mrs. Elton's party!Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston's temper.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's mar-riage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Eliza-beth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say, Plornish, though six weeks in arrear to my proprietor, declines.
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