Borrow
['bɒrəʊ] or ['bɑro]
解释:
(v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.
(v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
(v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
(v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
(n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
(n.) The act of borrowing.
霍奇编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Ask the loan of, take or receive as a loan.[2]. Take, appropriate, adopt, make use of.
鲍里斯校对
解释:
v.t. to obtain on loan or trust: to adopt from a foreign source: to derive one's authority from another (with from of).—p.adj. Borr′owed taken on loan counterfeit assumed.—n. Borr′ower.—Borrowing days the last three days of March (O.S.) supposed in Scotch folklore to have been borrowed by March from April and to be especially stormy.
录入:泰茜
娱乐性解释:
v. t., to swap hot air for cold coin.
哈洛录入
例句:
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I didn't beg, borrow, or steal it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Well, but--look here: you could BORROW on it any time you wanted. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Once in Maysville I could borrow a horse from an uncle who lived there; but I was more than a day's travel from that point. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It was the duty of the banks, they seemed to think, to lend for as long a time, and to as great an extent, as they might wish to borrow. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Better to borrow, better to beg, better to die! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- No, you shall not go there to borrow an umbrella, or find out where he is, from his friends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I am an impoverished wretch--the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Everywhere governments had been borrowing and issuing paper promises to pay interest, more interest than they could conveniently raise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In this exigency, government can have no other resource but in borrowing. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He devised a pegging machine, and out of his scanty earnings and at odd hours, with much pain and labour, and by borrowing money, he finally completed it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I've come a-borrowing, Mrs. Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Rachael made the tea (so large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup), and the visitor enjoyed it mightily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He introduces Rick, and then he is good friends with Mr. Vholes and borrows five pounds of him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
录入:玛莎