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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Owing to a peculiar phenomenon of the Cordilleras, an enormous mass, many miles in extent, had been displaced entirely, and was speeding down toward the plain.
-- "Could it be owing to the RIOS of the Sierra being swollen to overflowing by the heavy rains?"
-- CHAPTER II TRISTAN D'ACUNHA AND THE ISLE OF AMSTERDAMIF the yacht had followed the line of the equator, the 196 degrees which separate Australia from America, or, more correctly, Cape Bernouilli from Cape Corrientes, would have been equal to 11,760 geographical miles; but along the 37th parallel these same degrees, owing to the form of the earth, only represent 9,480 miles.
-- It seems in Australia as if towns shot up like trees, owing to the heat of the sun.
-- The route was indefinitely prolonged owing to the insurmountable obstacles, huge blocks of granite, deep ravines, suspected lagoons, which obliged them to make a thousand detours.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general was, owing to certain circumstances, a little inclined to be too suspicious at home, and needlessly ner-vous; but, as an experienced father and husband, he judged it better to take measures at once to protect himself from any dangers there might be in the air.
-- 'Prince,' he began again, 'they are rather angry with me, in there, owing to a circumstance which I need not explain, so that I do not care to go in at present without an invi-tation.
-- It was, however, soon recognized as a case of epilep-sy, and identification and proper measures for restoration followed one another, owing to a fortunate circumstance.
-- Colia Ivolgin had come back to his hotel about seven o'clock, owing to a sudden impulse which made him refuse to dine at the Epanchins', and, finding a note from the prince awaiting him, had sped away to the latter's address.
-- For a long time now Lizabetha Prokofievna had had it in her mind that all the trouble was owing to her 'unfortunate character, 'and this added to her distress.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in Elis to whom there was a debt owing should come; and the leading Pylians assembled to divide the spoils.
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：
-- That I did not join myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen.
-- Now, for myself, I do love justice; and, therefore, I will not say I hate a Mingo, for that may be unsuitable to my color and my religion, though I will just repeat, it may have been owing to the night that 'killdeer' had no hand in the death of this skulking Oneida.'
-- It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms.
-- Duncan, who was not altogether as easy under this nice estimate of distances as his companions, was glad to find, however, that owing to their superior dexterity, and the diversion among their enemies, they were very sensibly ob-taining the advantage.
-- 'That I did not answer to the call for La Longue Carabine, was not owing either to shame or fear,' he said, 'for neither one nor the other is the gift of an honest man.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of su-pernatural stories in these parts, was doubtless owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I showed him all that was sent to me; I told him that, next to the providence of Heaven, which disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on me to reward him, which I would do a hundred-fold: so I first re-turned to him the hundred moidores I had received of him; then I sent for a notary, and caused him to draw up a gen-eral release or discharge from the four hundred and seventy moidores, which he had acknowledged he owed me, in the fullest and firmest manner possible.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many of them had their sleeves rolled up, revealing bare arms, and in some cases, owing to the heat, their dresses were open at the neck.
-- Owing to his order of mind, his confidence in the sex was not great.
-- Owing to the peculiar nature of his position, such a disclosure as this would ordinarily create no difficulty.
-- She was flushing scarlet to the roots of her hair, but Drouet did not catch the full hue of her face, owing to the modified light of the room.
-- He was in a fevered state of mind, owing to the blight his wife's action threatened to cast upon his entire future.
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