Borrowed

例句/造句/用法:

• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• I am an impoverished wretch--the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. 沃爾特·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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• 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. 世紀發明.
• It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• They seem to have followed, and not to have gone before, the market rate of interest, or the rate at which people of good credit usually borrowed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• But on Sunday after luncheon he borrowed a cutter, and drove over to Skuytercliff. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• And then you won't know me, sir; and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequin's jacket--a jay in borrowed plumes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• This idea, then, is borrowed from, and represents some impression, which this moment appears to the senses. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• It is full of inconsistencies, and though borrowed from Plato, shows but a superficial acquaintance with his writings. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• They were borrowed from the French, as was the farce, but Livius had adapted it with some taste to the English stage. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• I have certainly never borrowed any money on such an insecurity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• He started a lawsuit at once to recover the sums he had expended, and judgment was given against Gutenberg, commanding that he should pay what he had borrowed, together with interest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The philosophy of Heracleitus cannot be shown to be borrowed from Zoroaster, and still less the myths of Plato. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• I borrowed half-a-dozen works, all carefully chosen with a view to Rachel. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• They borrowed the idea--and the words--and the construction--and the punctuation--from Grimes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• I went on, however, to my destination and borrowed a dry suit from my --future--brother-in-law. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Hardly, replied the old man grimly; unless he has borrowed the wings of Icarus, for I alone have the key of the tunnel. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• In the one case, the fund was supposed sufficient to pay, within the limited time, both principal and interest of the money borrowed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• It is not properly borrowed in order to be spent, but in order to replace a capital which had been spent before. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Some of the money I want has been borrowed for you. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• During the two wars which began in 1739 and in 1755, little money was borrowed, either upon annuities for terms of years, or upon those for lives. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• From them she drew her happiness, and what she borrowed, she, with interest, gave back. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• He had not borrowed money in that way, for excellent reasons. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.

編輯:韦德