欠的人情與感謝
把「欠著要還」從錢搬到人與人之間：別人幫了你、教了你，你心裡也像「欠了他一筆」。只是這次欠的不是錢，而是人情、是感謝。
intangible indebtedness · noun · B2
How much you have learned from or been helped by someone or something.
恩惠、影響
核心畫面
You can picture debt as something you have taken from someone that still hangs over you until you give it back: money you borrowed and owe. Hold that feeling of an unpaid amount sitting on your shoulders — the word then stretches from owed money to owed thanks.
可以把 debt 想成「你從別人那裡拿了什麼，還沒還、一直壓在你身上」的那個東西：最典型的就是借來、欠著要還的錢。把…更多收起
可以把 debt 想成「你從別人那裡拿了什麼，還沒還、一直壓在你身上」的那個東西：最典型的就是借來、欠著要還的錢。把「一筆沒還的量壓在肩上」這個感覺記住——這個字便從「欠的錢」一路伸到「欠的人情與感謝」。From the picture
Also in this word
money owed · noun · B2
An amount of money that a person or group owes and must pay back.
債、欠款
state of owing · noun · B2
The state of owing money to someone (in 'in debt').
負債（狀態）
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
debtnoun/ˈdɛt/
- 1
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- 2
The state or condition of owing something to another.
- I am in your debt.
- We owe them a debt of gratitude for taking care of our pets.
- 3
businessfinanceMoney that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- 4
lawAn action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。