核心词议:
vt. 欠;欠钱;感激;应该把……归功于;服从
owe 基本解释
vt. 欠…债;感激;应归功于;怀有情感
速记方法
速记技巧 词根词缀法 词根owe表示拥有;v owe欠[债];应把…归功于[to]owe拥有→因为拥有[借]而欠;归功于; 谐音记忆法 eoe欠钱不还所以被一圈打肿了左眼owe
知识扩展
词语辨析
owe...to,be due to二者的共同意思是“欠”。
其区别是:
1.owe是动词;due是形容词。例如She owes ten dollars to her sister.她欠她姐姐10美元。Any money that is due to you will be paid before the end of this month.欠你的钱将在这月底之前全部支付给你。
2.owe...to常译为“欠某人的债”,用于比喻可表示对“某人负有义务或名誉,功劳应归于…”;而due一般译为“应付给”,用以表示原因。例如Our grateful thanks are due to the police department for their help in the making of this film.我们由衷感谢警方在制作这部影片的过程中给予我们的帮助。 同近义词 appreciate,be grateful to vt.欠;感激;应给予;应该把……归功于
owe 变化形式
第三人称单数: owes
过去式: owed
过去分词: owed
现在分词: owing
易混淆的单词: OWE
过去式: owed
过去分词: owed
现在分词: owing
易混淆的单词: OWE
中文词源: owe 欠债,欠账,归因于 来自古英语agan,拥有,所有,来自Proto-Germanic*aigan,占有,来自PIE*aik,掌握,掌管,词源同ought,own.其现义来自古英语习语agan to geldanne,用拥有的去支付或偿还,即own to yield.从而与own产生词义上的差别。 owe
精选例句
1、 Add up all the money I owe you.
把我欠你的钱全部加起来。
2、 I owe everything to him.
我的一切都归功于他。
1、 While Wall Street executives used their expensive lawyers to ensure that their ranks were not held accountable for the misdeeds that the crisis in 2008 so graphically revealed, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose(取消赎回权)on mortgages and eject tenants, some of whom did not even owe money.
当华尔街的高管们使用昂贵的律师来确保他们的员工不会为2008年危机中暴露出来的不当行为负责时,银行滥用我们的法律体系,取消抵押贷款的抵押品赎回权,并驱逐租户,其中一些人甚至不欠钱。
常见考点例句:
- If I slept over , you owe me breakfast .
- 如果我睡过头了,那么你欠我一顿早餐。
- Spain and italy owe 2.5 trillion .
- 西班牙和意大利就欠下了2.5万亿欧元。
- Redeeming their bonds allows homeowners to reduce the amount they owe .
- 购买债券使得购房者(抵押借款人)得以降低其负债。
- The other mia 's parents are nutty , as are the friends who think you owe them an apology .
- 另外一个mia的父母真是疯了,那些认为你该向他们道歉的朋友也不正常。
- But one could just as easily argue that the boards of these companies owe their investors more than that .
- 但人们也可以同样轻易地辩称,此类公司的董事会对投资者所负的责任不止于此。