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单词 borrow
释义
borrow
verb
uk
/ˈbɒr.əʊ/us
/ˈbɑːr.oʊ/

borrowverb(RECEIVE)

A2[T]
to get orreceivesomething from someone with theintentionof giving it back after aperiodoftime:
借，借入
I had to borrow apenfromtheinvigilatorto do theexam.我不得不从监考人员那里借了一支笔考试。
UKnon-standardCan I borrow £100offyou until nextweek?我可以从你那里借100镑下周还吗？
She used to borrowmoneyand notbothertopayit back.她过去常借钱不还。
He borrowed anovelfrom thelibrary.他从图书馆里借了一本小说。
C1[IorT]
to takemoneyfrom abankor otherfinancialorganizationandpayit back over aperiodoftime:
（向…）借贷
Like so manycompaniesat thattime, we had to borrowheavilytosurvive.像那时众多的公司一样，我们不得不靠大量借贷维持生存。
We could always borrow somemoneyfrom thebank.我们总是能从银行贷出些钱来。
[T]
to take and use a word orideafrom anotherlanguageorpieceofwork:
引入，借用（词汇或想法）
Englishhas borrowed many wordsfromFrench.英语从法语中借用了大量的词汇。
More examples
  • Can I borrow acoupleofbucks?
  • Do you have a Birmingham to Londontraintimetablethat I could borrow?
  • You have tosignbooksout when you borrow them from thelibrary.
  • He's abitpossessiveabout hisCDs- I wouldn'tdareaskto borrow them.
  • Just because I'mlendingyou mydressfortonightdoesn'tmeanyou can borrow itwheneveryouwantto.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Borrowing & lending
  • amortizable
  • amortization
  • arrears
  • bad debt
  • bonded
  • borrowing
  • callsomeonein
  • credit rating
  • hock
  • holiday
  • IOU
  • overdraft
  • overpayment
  • pay downsomething
  • pay off
  • paysomeone/somethingback
  • payday loan
  • reschedule
  • secure
  • straight
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Writing & typing

borrowverb(MATHEMATICS)

[T]
to put anumberinto a differentcolumnwhen doingsubtraction
（演算减法时）借（位）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
  • add
  • add (something) up
  • addition sign
  • additive
  • arithmetical
  • coefficient
  • deduction
  • factorize
  • half
  • halve
  • long division
  • multiply
  • power
  • roundsomethingdown
  • subtraction sign
  • subtractive
  • table
  • takesomethingaway
  • times
  • treble
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Related words

borrower
borrowing

Grammar

Lendorborrow?
Lend means ‘give something to someone for a short time, expecting that you will get it back’. The past simple and the -ed form are lent:…

Idiom

live on borrowed time
(Definition ofborrowfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

borrow| American Dictionary

borrow
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈbɑr·oʊ,ˈbɔr-/
to take something from someone with theintentionof giving it back after using it:
[T]Could I borrowyourbikeuntil nextweek?
[T]fig.Weconstantlyborrow words from othercultures.

borrower

noun[C]us
/ˈbɑr·ə·wər,ˈbɔr-/
Theratechargedto borrowers is 9.7%.

borrowing

noun[C/U]us
/ˈbɑr·ə·wɪŋ,ˈbɔr-/
[U]Jeffersonopposedgovernmentborrowing.
(Definition ofborrowfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

borrow| Business English

borrow
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈbɒrəʊ/us
FINANCE,BANKING
to takemoneyfrom abankor otherfinancialorganizationwith theintentionofpayingit back over aperiodoftime, usually withinterestaddedon:
He will have to borrow £300 million to make hiscontroversialtakeoverbidsuccessful.
Find out how much you canaffordto borrow before youdecidetobuyahouse.
borrow from sthIf you borrow from acreditcard, theinterestcan be 20%.
borrow sth from sthThis is a way of borrowingmoneyfrominternationalfinancialmarkets.
Countries who hadborrowedheavilytopayforoilimportswerehithard.
toasksomeone to give youmoneyfor aperiodoftime, after which youintendto give it back to them:
Can I borrow £20? I'llpayyou backtomorrow.
borrow (sth) from sbHe borrowed somemoneyfrom afriend.

Compare

lend

Phrasal verb

borrow against
(Definition ofborrowfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofborrow

borrow
Where meanings have changed, or terms have been borrowed from other disciplines, the most current usage is indicated.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Have you borrowed a friend's or colleague's copy, are you reading in a library or are you at the bottom of a long circulation list?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Have you borrowed a friend's or colleague's copy?
From theCambridge English Corpus
On two of these, increased taxation and sound borrowing out of actual savings, he felt no further action could usefully be done.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, they can give us some insights into students' borrowing behaviour and, by inference, which student groups (and potential students) may be debt averse.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To just lump them under an umbrella label of ' borrowing ' or ' calquing ' is an oversimplification which obscures the different possible historical scenarios for each case.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Liberal feminists borrowed the rhetoric of unjust exclusion and applied it to their own case.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The role of borrowing in the justification of phonological grammars.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many of the ideas used to good effect in computational syntax, most strikingly various versions of feature inheritance, have been borrowed from programming languages.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The paper points out that borrowing is optimal in some circumstances.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Choreographers borrowed the plots, characters and usually the titles of the original works, copying much of the action scene by scene.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is no working definition of the difference between borrowing and code-switching (admittedly a nearly impossible goal), but the examples include both phenomena.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The final paper, somewhat inconclusively, treats the issue of the extent to which borrowed words "fill gaps" in the existing lexicon.
From theCambridge English Corpus
First, the intermediation process modeled here has no direct implications for the cost of borrowing to obtain consumption goods.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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