1·You can't think how obliged I am to you for consenting to come on this trip!
你想不到我是多么感激你同意来参加这次旅行!
2·We are very much obliged to you for doing us such a service, and mother would like to see you.
你帮了我们这么大的忙,我们非常感激,我婆婆想见见你。
3·I would be obliged if you could read it to us.
如果你能把它读给我们听,我将不胜感激。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Got a kid here that'd be obliged if you could give him a ride to Noon City.
这儿有个孩子,如果你能载他一程送他到卢恩城,他会感激你的。
5·I shall be mush obliged if you will be so kind as to help me accomplish my long-cherished wish.
如果您能帮我实现这一梦寐以求的愿望,本人将不胜感激。
1·Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school.
法律规定父母必须送子女入学。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The strange, almost incomprehensible fact is that many professors, just as they feel obliged to write dully, believe that they should lecture dully.
一个奇怪的、几乎不可理解的事实是,许多教授认为他们应该用一种枯燥的方式讲课,就像他们觉得写作也必须很枯燥一样。
3·They were saddled with "take or pay" contracts that obliged them to buy fixed quantities of gas far above what they could sell and at prices way above those on the spot market.
他们签署了一系列“照付不议”的合同,必须以大大高于现货市场的价格购买固定数量的天然气,而很大一部分根本就卖不出去。
4·By next year all schools will be obliged to be ready with special desks to have more integrated classrooms.
明年将所有学校将必须准备好特制的课桌和更多综合性的教室。
5·If providers are obliged to adhere to consumer-driven contracts - nothing more, nothing less - then consumers must ensure that they too stick to their side of the bargain.
若提供者必须恰好符合消费者驱动的契约,那么消费者必须确保自己也符合对方的期望。