Lent
[lent]
[lent] or [lɛnt]
解釋/意思:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lend
(-) imp. & p. p. of Lend.
(n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
(a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.
(a.) See Lento.
恩里克錄入
解釋/意思:
n. an annual fast of forty days in commemoration of the fast of our Saviour (Matt. iv. 2) from Ash-Wednesday to Easter.—adj. Lent′en relating to or used in Lent: sparing.—n. Lent′-lil′y the daffodil as flowering in Lent.
埃伦校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A Church fast that is slow to go; or something loaned which is slow to come back.
戈代娃手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Brummell often dined with him, and therefore I take it for granted that Tom Raikes lent Brummell money. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Before the half-hour was out, I had got my dry clothes on, and had lent Sergeant Cuff such change of dress as he required. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- There was the room the Marshal had lent her, up-stairs, in which they could wait for her, if they pleased. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The President of France lent me his private box. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I was so bewildered that Miss Donny thought the cold had been too severe for me and lent me her smelling-bottle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He often thanked us for the books we lent him, and for the use of our instruments, but never spoke of his altered abode or change of circumstances. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He accused the Greeks of superstition: what name did he give to the faith he lent to the predictions of Evadne? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And if somebody lent you a pound or two, could you make any good use of it? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Thenlooking up, have I seen in the sky a head amidst circling stars, of which the midmost and the brightest lent a ray sympathetic and attent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The fact that it was retreating from the scene of battle lent colour to this hypothesis. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- OF STOCK LENT AT INTERESt. The stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The stock which is accumulated into a capital, may either be employed by the person to whom it belongs, or it may be lent to some other person. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have since kept several Lents most strictly, leaving the common diet for that, and that for the common, abruptly, without the least inconvenience. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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