Obligation

(noun.) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.

(noun.) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor.

(noun.) the state of being obligated to do or pay something; 'he is under an obligation to finish the job'.

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• I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I will not affect to deny that you are under some obligation to me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was meant in kindness, of course; but it was not the sort of obligation one could remain under. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Here, therefore, we feign a new act of the mind, which we call the willing an obligation; and on this we suppose the morality to depend. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Where the tyranny of the governor removes this interest, it also removes the natural obligation to obedience. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They felt that this change of period released them from the obligation of re-volunteering. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Afterwards a sentiment of morals concurs with interest, and becomes a new obligation upon mankind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He will feel highly honoured, and thus you may repay a part of the obligation I owe him, and compensate for the injuries fortune has done him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We might as well resolve the obligation to abstain from the possessions of others, into the obligation of a promise, as that of allegiance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• You had no more obligation. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• You have done me many acts of kindness that I can never repay, and have no wish to repay, for I prefer continuing the obligation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The difficulties, that occur to us, in supposing a moral obligation to attend promises, we either surmount or elude. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Why do you want to put me under such terrible obligations? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I am under obligations to you, I know it, a d--d deal too well too; but I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That's knowing the obligations of a Alfred David, ain't it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As there are here two interests entirely distinct from each other, they must give rise to two moral obligations, equally separate and independent. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• So far he was reasonably sure of having fulfilled all his obligations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In my position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place one's self under obligations. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is not _my_ part, then, I think, to tak fro' _ye_--to be under obligations (as they say) to _ye_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If Mrs. Rushworth could imagine any interfering obligations, Julia was certainly able to quit London whenever she chose. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• He has sustained many losses of late; and these obligations accumulating upon him at once, would crush him to the earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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