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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, owing to this cellular arrangement it resists like a block, as if it were solid.
-- The boat in which Cook was struck on a rock, and, if it did not sink, it was owing to a piece of coral that was broken by the shock, and fixed itself in the broken keel.
-- Five miles still lay between us, and it was indistinct owing to the mist on the water.
-- The sea, which till now had been white, was red, owing to the presence of salts of iron.
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 had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The missing person had evidently been swept off by the sea, which had just struck the net, and it was owing to this circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time, and then soon after reached the land.
-- Some of these trees lay on the ground, and they had only to be barked, which was the most difficult thing of all, owing to the imperfect tools which the settlers possessed.
-- The settlers, uniting their efforts, managed to drag it as far as the shore, where they discovered a large rocky cavity, which owing to its position could not be visited either by the wind or rain.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I had the misfortune to scream in my sleep, owing to a frightful nightmare.
-- He got through, and the doctor affirmed it was in a great measure owing to me, and praised me for my care.
-- I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker on.
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