Owe

(verb.) be in debt; 'She owes me $200'; 'I still owe for the car'; 'The thesis owes much to his adviser'.

(verb.) be obliged to pay or repay.

(verb.) be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; 'This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory'.

整理:罗伯塔

• I dare say I owe as much as good-natured people will let me owe. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Damn the beast, if he had as many lives as a cat, he would owe them all to me! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I'm sure it's no pleasure to me to go today, but it's a debt we owe society, and there's no one to pay it but you and me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I owe that to you, Mrs. Casaubon says. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I don't owe him anything. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is a duty we all owe to the poor creature herself to trace her, continued Sir Percival. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I owed her gratitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Have you forgot, Marianne, how many pleasant days we have owed to them? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• She knew how each tenant of the cottages paid or owed his little rent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But I think I'll have one minute more of what I am owed, if you don't mind. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• As we have already seen, the Royal Society and Milton's Academies owed their origin to the Great Rebellion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It slid from its balance, owing to the change in its course against the currents of air. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The organization was crude, the steam-engineering talent poor, and owing to the impossibility of getting any considerable capital subscribed, the plants were put in as cheaply as possible. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He knew how much he had to do--more than his usual work, owing to the commotion of the day before. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It circled (owing to the guys of one wing being loose) to the right, completing two circles and beginning a third as it advanced; so that the whole course had the form of a spiral. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Grand Trunk still owes Mr. Edison the wages due him at the time he thus withdrew from its service, but the claim has never been pressed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the first place, she owes no money privately to any living creature. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My sex owes you every amends for the treatment you received in days gone by. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It belongs exclusively to the Nineteenth Century, and owes its existence to the tireless energy of one man. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• My father owes him money. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The ruby owes its fine red color to the presence of oxide of chromium; the sapphire its deep blue to either a lower oxide of chromium or to an oxide of titanium. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I may give another instance of a structure which apparently owes its origin exclusively to use or habit. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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