| 单词 | borrow |
| 释义 | borrow (bɒroʊ ) Word forms: borrows , borrowing , borrowed 1. verb A2 If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission. Can I borrow a pen please? [VERB noun] He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes. [VERB noun] Synonyms: take on loan, touch (someone) for [slang], scrounge [informal], blag [slang] 2. verb A2 If you borrow money from someone or from a bank, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at some time in the future. Morgan borrowed £5,000 from his father to form the company 20 years ago. [VERB noun + from] It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies. [VERB + from] He borrowed heavily to get the money together. [VERB] 3. verb A2 If you borrow a book from a library, you take it away for a fixed period of time. I couldn't afford to buy any, so I borrowed them from the library. [VERB noun + from] 4. verb If you borrow something such as a word or an idea from another language or from another person's work, you use it in your own language or work. I borrowed his words for my book's title. [VERB noun] Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own. [VERB noun] Synonyms: steal, take, use, copy 5. be/be living on borrowed time phrase Someone who is living on borrowed time or who is on borrowed time has continued to live or to do something for longer than was expected, and is likely to die or be stopped from doing it soon. Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time. Quotations: Neither a borrower nor a lender beHamlet Collocations: borrow a car And that means you will need to borrow a car from a manufacturer's press fleet. Times, Sunday Times Next we had to find a manufacturer willing to let us borrow a car to drive through salt water and sand. Times, Sunday Times Imagine, for example, that you borrow my car and it has a flat. Christianity Today But someone either lets them borrow their car, or they know how to get hold of one. Times, Sunday Times He's arranged to borrow a car from a friend who runs a garage, and speeds off to collect it on his motorbike. Times, Sunday Times From this use, countless other fantasy games and works of fiction have borrowed the concept of the orc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We can also understand this concept by borrowing a concept of physics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The game also borrows some concepts from the franchise's anime series. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he was, to borrow a phrase, lying. Times, Sunday Times So, to borrow a phrase from the show itself, what's occurring? The Sun To borrow a phrase she must have used on the maternity ward: 'keep breathing'. Times, Sunday Times To borrow a phrase so beloved of the show, it's been quite a journey so far. The Sun To borrow a phrase from the approach to the dangerously large banks that are being broken up at the moment, the euro became too big to fail. Times, Sunday Times Here, you borrow a sum against the value of your property. Times, Sunday Times It took him some time to borrow the sum in order to have the execution of house arrest lifted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sums borrowed by homeowners against their properties, meanwhile, fell in the first quarter to a seven-year low of 5 billion. Times, Sunday Times First, the interest and fees on new loans and rolled-over debts must not exceed more than 0.8 per cent per day of the sum borrowed. Times, Sunday Times To borrow a term from the beautiful game, they all get the hairdryer treatment. The Sun And meteorologists have borrowed the term 'col' to describe a particular weather pattern. Times, Sunday Times Borrowing a term from his professional life, he christens it 'the blot'. The Times Literary Supplement Borrowing the terms from statistics, the standard deviation of a filter can be interpreted as a measure of its size. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some have speculated that he borrowed the term out of a sense of humility, considering himself only a temporary place-holder. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are personal risks when a writer borrows an idea from another. The Times Literary Supplement The painting borrows the idea of wealth by having tapestries on the wall and expensive drapes on the table. Times, Sunday Times Other forces are starting to borrow the ideas. Times, Sunday Times As a solution, he borrows the idea of features from phonology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Beside borrowing the idea of origami from the comic series, the story and characters of the animation series are greatly altered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The agreements allow financial institutions to borrow cash in exchange for government bonds and are essential to ensure efficient money flows. Times, Sunday Times The rule says ministers can only borrow cash to invest in major projects for the future. The Sun The new banks would not be allowed to borrow cash. Times, Sunday Times Others have had to borrow cash from payday lenders to meet soaring costs. The Sun The aim of the widespread fiddling was to give the impression that the banks were able to borrow cash more cheaply than was really the case. Times, Sunday Times Supposedly they enable government, companies and households to borrow cheaply, and consequently they spend and invest more, so generating economic activity. Times, Sunday Times Because of the implicit government guarantee of their debt, they were able to borrow cheaply on capital markets and massively expand their books. Times, Sunday Times This has helped them borrow cheaply to buy back their own shares and drive up stock prices. Times,Sunday Times The answer dictates not only the long-term security of the businesses but also their ability to borrow cheaply, and therefore their raison d'être. Times, Sunday Times The government can borrow cheaply, giving it the opportunity to increase spending. Times, Sunday Times She must borrow clothes from her rich friend to go to her first ball with the prince. Times, Sunday Times Does she pop down to the shop to borrow clothes? Times, Sunday Times Changing into borrowed clothes in the museum's lavatory, he was shaking with the righteous fury of somebody who ought not to have trusted the weatherman. Times, Sunday Times She'll put off paying bills for as long as possible and borrows clothes for special occasions from friends rather than shopping. The Sun No wonder celebrities tend to think that it's their right to hang on to borrowed clothes - think of the pictures they spawned. Times, Sunday Times Detractors insist that they all borrow freely from existing technologies. Times, Sunday Times He admits that during the 1990s, he borrowed freely from a multitude of sources, but says that the practice was accepted. Times, Sunday Times I borrowed freely from their creation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It favors borrowing freely from other systems within a free-floating framework. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Peer-to-peer platforms link up individual and institutional investors with consumers and small companies who wish to borrow funds. Times,Sunday Times The majority of the government's proposed financial package relates to extending greater flexibility to the executive to borrow funds. Times, Sunday Times This meant it could borrow funds at the same cheap rate as commercial banks for as long as it wanted. Times, Sunday Times She wants him to borrow funds for large-scale building. The Sun Credit card holders may borrow funds on a revolving basis up to an assigned credit limit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Airlines can and do borrow heavily because their assets are tangible and relatively safe. Principles of Corporate Finance (1991) Many have also borrowed heavily to expand and are highly geared. Times, Sunday Times (2007) But costs continually outstripped the revenue and the builders had to borrow heavily. Globe and Mail (2003) He had to borrow the money and work himself to death. Globe and Mail (2003) So we fibbed a bit about how much it costs us to borrow money? Times, Sunday Times (2012) Often a personal tragedy such as divorce or bereavement had led them to borrow money. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The borrowed money is used to pay for basic infrastructure on mothballed sites, which in turn allows building work to begin. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Who in their right mind would borrow money to give it away to charities? The Sun (2011) Translations: Chinese: 借 Japanese: 借りる |
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