owing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 欠的， 未付的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky had as a fact promised to call at Bryansky's, some eight miles from Peterhof, and to bring him some money owing for some horses; and he hoped to have time to get that in too.
-- He simply gave Alexey Alexandrovitch the money he needed together with a brief statement of the position of his affairs, which was not altogether satisfactory, as it had happened that during that year, owing to increased expenses, more had been paid out than usual, and there was a deficit.
-- If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically developed this force both in beasts and in men.
-- Darya Alexandrovna regarded staying in the country for the summer as essential for the children, especially for the little girl, who had not succeeded in regaining her strength after the scarlatina, and also as a means of escaping the petty humiliations, the little bills owing to the wood-merchant, the fishmonger, the shoemaker, which made her miserable.
-- These were principally accounts owing in connection with his race horses, to the purveyor of oats and hay, the English saddler, and so on.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This line, owing to the capricious turnings of the Vindhia Mountains, did not pursue a straight course.
-- The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth.
-- Owing to the delay caused by the rescue of the young widow, Fix and the priests reached the Indian capital before Mr. Fogg and his servant, the magistrates having been already warned by a dispatch to arrest them should they arrive.
-- Owing to the defective construction of the Rangoon, however, unusual precautions became necessary in unfavourable weather; but the loss of time which resulted from this cause, while it nearly drove Passepartout out of his senses, did not seem to affect his master in the least.
-- The sea was less boisterous, since the wind came off land a fortunate circumstance for the boat, which would suffer, owing to its small tonnage, by a heavy surge on the sea.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have let you alone, Dr. Gottlieb," said Tubbs, "but, hang it, I am the Director!And I must say that, perhaps owing to my signal stupidity, I fail to see the horrors of enabling Arrowsmith to cure thousands of suffering persons and to become a man of weight and esteem!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so vari-ous were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.
-- 'Since then, sir,' he went on after a brief pause 'Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through in-formation given by evil- intentioned persons in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yel-low ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
-- There were various other reasons owing to which Dounia could not hope to escape from that awful 50 Crime and Punishmenthouse for another six weeks.
-- And now mother and she have taken it into their heads that she can put up with Mr. Luzhin, who propounds the theory of the superiority of wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband's bounty who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview.
-- Razumihin opened the note which was dated the previ-ous evening and read as follows: 'Dear Madam, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, I have the hon-our to inform you that owing to unforeseen obstacles I was 310 Crime and Punishmentrendered unable to meet you at the railway station; I sent a very competent person with the same object in view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to some confusion in the dark, the door was gone.
-- It is owing to the difficulty ofknowing whether they are likely to endure or have any realfoundation, that my sister Clarissa and myself have been veryundecided how to act, Mr. Copperfield, and Mr.-' 'Traddles,' saidmy friend, finding himself looked at.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unre-serve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recol-lection.
-- I, who am owing all my happiness to you, would not it be horrible ingratitude in me to be severe on them?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
-- The ring of the sheep-bell, which had been silent during his absence, recommenced, in tones that had more mellowness than clearness, owing to an increasing growth of surrounding wool.
-- Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case, and in one only striking wide of the mark, and inflicting a mortal blow at once upon the suffering ewe.
-- "Not so to you: then I say with all respect that, if so, it is owing to your modesty, Miss Everdene.
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