| 单词 | owe |
| 释义 | owe (oʊ ) Word forms: owes , owing , owed 1. verb B1 If you owe money to someone, they have lent it to you and you have not yet paid it back. You can also say that the money is owing. The company owes money to more than 60 banks. [VERB noun + to] Blake already owed him nearly £50. [VERB noun noun] I'm broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars. [VERB noun] He could take what was owing for the rent. [VERB] 2. verb [no passive] If someone or something owes a particular quality or their success to a person or thing, they only have it because of that person or thing. I always suspected she owed her first job to her friendship with Roger. [VERB noun to noun] He owed his survival to his strength as a swimmer. [VERB noun + to] The fruit owes its extraordinary aroma to a mixture of three main chemicals. [VERB noun to noun] The city essentially owes its fame and beauty to the Moors who transformed it into the Muslim capital of Spain. [VERB noun to noun] I owe him my life. [VERB noun noun] 3. verb B2 If you say that you owe a great deal to someone or something, you mean that they have helped you or influenced you a lot, and you feel very grateful to them. As a professional composer, I owe much to Radio 3. [V n to] He's been fantastic. I owe him a lot. [VERB noun noun] 4. verb If you say that something owes a great deal to a person or thing, you mean that it exists, is successful, or has its particular form mainly because of them. She is the first to admit that her career path owes a lot to good fortune. [V n to] Mrs Allen's style of cooking owes much to her mother-in-law. [V amount to n] 5. verb B2 If you say that you owe someone gratitude, respect, or loyalty, you mean that they deserve it from you. [formal] Perhaps we owe these people more respect. [VERB noun noun] I owe you an apology. You must have found my attitude very annoying. [VERB noun noun] I owe a big debt of gratitude to her. [VERB noun + to] 6. verb [no passive] If you say that you owe it to someone to do something, you mean that you should do that thing because they deserve it. I can't go. I owe it to him to stay. You owe it to yourself to get some professional help. Of course she would have to send a letter; she owed it to the family. 7. owing to sth phrase B2 You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something. He was out of work owing to a physical injury. Owing to staff shortages, there was no restaurant car on the train. 8. the world owes someone a living phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone thinks that the world owes them a living, you are criticizing them because they think it is their right to have a comfortable life without having to make any effort at all. [disapproval] Young people must not kid themselves that the world owes them a living. Collocations: owe a payment Payments owed to individual clubs range from 70,000 to nearly 750,000. Times, Sunday Times Interest payments owed, but not necessarily paid, by former students show up as receipts and reduce the deficit. Times, Sunday Times Rather, debits and credits are being logged in an accounting system to keep track of inventories shipped and payments owed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Expert testimony said that the method of calculation to establish the payments owed was the best possible allocation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Invoices differ from receipts in that invoices serve to notify customers of payments owed, whereas receipts serve as proof of completed payment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You were owed the refund, so why weren't you getting it? The Sun But giving meter readings every three months and keeping an eye on your bills online will put customers more in control of whether they are owed a refund. The Sun So she was owed a refund of £295. The Sun Rightly, when those seats were not available you felt you were owed a refund. The Sun The previous owner was also owed a refund, and the house has been allocated to a lower band. Times, Sunday Times I don't understand how we can possibly owe this sum. The Sun We chased this for you, as you've been owed this sum for a long time. The Sun In this regard the statistics commonly cited as government debt are themselves deeply misleading, for they encompass only the sums owed by governments in the form of bonds. Times, Sunday Times He has since repaid these balances excluding the sums owed by his past wife. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He not only cancelled on the spot the record of all sums owed to him, but bade them keep for themselves the whole of the coming maize harvest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now he's got nothing and even owes cash. The Sun The foreign correspondents also claim they are owed cash. The Sun The winding-up was blasted by people owed cash - mostly recession-hit small businesses - who will now get nothing. The Sun He prowled a council estate hunting down people who owed cash. The Sun Fans have been offered the chance to use the owed cash as credit ahead of next season. The Sun I also owe rent, but not two years' worth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If there are no unowned properties, the player needs to move forward to the next property on which he/she would owe rent to another player. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was not clear yesterday if the centre owed rent, rates and maintenance, or all three. The Sun They owed rent to their landlords and used to receive regular visits and letters from them when on tour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the remaining they were still owed rents and had the rights to hold court(s), fairs, and so on. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you also owe tax, the penalty will be 10% to 20% of the amount owed. Times, Sunday Times Still, there are cases in which a person with multiple citizenship will owe tax solely on the basis of holding one of those citizenships. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It said that customers who were owed tax refunds were always contacted by post. Times, Sunday Times If you owe taxes and can't pay right now, file anyway. Houston Chronicle Telling people who owed tax that their neighbours had already paid boosted payment by 15 per cent. Times, Sunday Times A former 15:17 worker has started an online petition claiming they are owed wages and that their pension contributions have not been invested. Times,Sunday Times To make matters worse, players are owed wages for anything up to eight months. Times, Sunday Times Sources close to the process say creditors, including shareholders and staff who are owed wages, are likely to lose their money. Times,Sunday Times At the time he claimed he was owed wages he wanted for a holiday and his boss was too busy to write the cheque. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 欠 Japanese: 借りがある |
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