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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had become known that she had had a fearful journey to Bath, owing to her miscalculating the distance: that the horse had broken down, and that she had been more than two days getting there.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Goriot's eyes seemed to have shrunk in their sockets, though they were weak and watery, owing to some glandular affection which compelled him to wipe them continually, she considered him to be a very gentlemanly and pleasant-looking man.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The life of my father is in the greatest 164 Frankensteindanger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have re-lated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the pantry, which was far more abundantly supplied than usual, owing to the season, I was very much alarmed by a hare hanging up by the heels, whom I rather thought I caught, when my back was half turned, winking.
-- Instantly afterwards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodic whooping-cough dance, and rushing out at the door; he then became visible through the window, violently plunging and expectorating, making the most hideous faces, and apparently out of his mind.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That our institutions of government and law were plain-ly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence in virtue; because reason alone is sufficient to govern a -rational creature; which was, therefore, a character we had no pretence to challenge, even from the account I had given of my own people; although he manifestly perceived, that, in order to favour them, I had concealed many particulars, and often said the thing which was not.
-- But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the dissensions of those brutes in his country were owing to the same cause with ours, as I had described them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lowest of the clouds must have been floating at an elevation of two thousand yards, a height greater than that of terrestrial vapors, which c ircumstance was doubtless owing to the extreme density of the air.
-- I felt myself precipitated violently into the boiling waves, and if I escaped from a certain and cruel death, it was wholly owing to the determination of the faithful Hans, who, clutching me by the arm, saved me from the yawning abyss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The eaters of the dinner, like the dinner itself, were lukewarm, insipid, overdone and all owing to this poor little dull Young Barnacle.
-- 'I ha! I can't think what it's owing to.
-- Being weary then, owing to the advanced hour and his emotions, he came out of his chair to bless her and wish her Good night.
-- 'Why, yes, ma'am,' said Pancks, 'rather so lately; I have lately been round this way a good deal, owing to one thing and another.'
-- The little half-hour was expired, the lady and gentleman were taking their little dessert and half-cup of coffee, the note was paid, the horses were ordered, they would depart immediately; but, owing to an unhappy destiny and the curse of Heaven, they were not yet gone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said the change was owing to the climate, and she did not contradict him, being glad of a like excuse for her own recovered health and spirits.
-- But owing to the flutter she was in, everything went amiss.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.
-- So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
-- Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.
-- And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod was the least given to that sort of shallowest assumption; and though the only homage he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or in terrorem, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.
-- When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The motive professed was his conviction of its being owing to himself that Wickham's worthlessness had not been so well known as to make it impossible for any young woman of character to love or confide in him.
-- It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consider-ation, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
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