Owing

例句:

• 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.
• But this great naval power could not, in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Food was brought me at intervals but owing to the utter darkness of the place I do not know whether I lay there days, or weeks, or months. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• My daughter reminded me of Mr. Candy's illness, owing (as you may remember) to the chill he had caught on the night of the dinner-party. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• At the end of one minute and twenty seconds the propellers began to slow down owing to the exhaustion of fuel. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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