Beholden

(adj.) under a moral obligation to someone .

手打:米米

• Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so busy and so mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Goodness knows, Uncle Pumblechook, said my sister (grasping the money), we're deeply beholden to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I telled him, I'd not that good opinion on him that I'd ha' come a second time of mysel'; but yo'd advised me for to come, and I were beholden to yo'. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She said she would never be beholden to Catherick for bit or drop, if she lived to be a hundred. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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