Arrears

(noun.) an unpaid overdue debt.

(noun.) the state of being behind in payments; 'an account in arrears'.

手打:珀西瓦尔

• He was in arrears with his rent, it seems. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Miss Rugg, perhaps making up some of her arrears, likewise took very kindly to the mutton, and it rapidly diminished to the bone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But I should like you to tell me of another landlord who has distressed his tenants for arrears as little as I have. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One of them in my room, Charles Gorot, had some arrears of work to make up, so I left him there and went out to dine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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