borrowed
past simple and past participle ofborrow
| 单词 | borrowed |
| 释义 | borrowed past simple and past participle ofborrow borrow verb uk/ˈbɒr.əʊ/us/ˈbɑːr.oʊ/borrowverb(RECEIVE)A2[T] to get orreceivesomething from someone with theintentionof giving it back after aperiodoftime: I had to borrow apenfromtheinvigilatorto do theexam. UKnon-standardCan I borrow £100offyou until nextweek? She used to borrowmoneyand notbothertopayit back. He borrowed anovelfrom thelibrary. C1[IorT] to takemoneyfrom abankor otherfinancialorganizationandpayit back over aperiodoftime: Like so manycompaniesat thattime, we had to borrowheavilytosurvive. We could always borrow somemoneyfrom thebank. [T] to take and use a word orideafrom anotherlanguageorpieceofwork: Englishhas borrowed many wordsfromFrench.
Borrowing & lending
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Writing & typing borrowverb(MATHEMATICS)[T] to put anumberinto a differentcolumnwhen doingsubtraction Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
GrammarLendorborrow? 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:…Idiomlive on borrowed time Examplesofborrowedborrowed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In order to develop a more integrative approach, weborrowedthe essence of the gametheoretic apparatus and modified it somewhat liberally. From theCambridge English Corpus Liberal feministsborrowedthe 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 theborrowedtune. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of the ideas used to good effect in computational syntax, most strikingly various versions of feature inheritance, have beenborrowedfrom programming languages. From theCambridge English Corpus Choreographersborrowedthe plots, characters and usually the titles of the original works, copying much of the action scene by scene. From theCambridge English Corpus The final paper, somewhat inconclusively, treats the issue of the extent to whichborrowedwords "fill gaps" in the existing lexicon. From theCambridge English Corpus Here, however, the morphological encoding of structure wasborrowedseparately from the abstract structure it represents. From theCambridge English Corpus Even after a word has beenborrowed, it is still available for codeswitching. From theCambridge English Corpus Other examples involve the maintenance of the spelling that theborrowedword has in its language of origin. From theCambridge English Corpus Some are words that become names for communities only after they areborrowedinto another language. From theCambridge English Corpus If a bankborrowed, there were more reserves in the system. From theCambridge English Corpus Across both languages, more nouns wereborrowedthan verbs, but more verbs were transferred than nouns. From theCambridge English Corpus Generally, the models used to help interpret the archaeological data areborrowedfrom other societies and other times. From theCambridge English Corpus They seek to overcome this problem by arguing that it could have beenborrowedin a possessed form, which would lack the absolute suffix. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, the region hasborrowedconcepts from the developed world which are not always appropriate in the continent. 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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