单词 | borrowed |
释义 | borrowedadj. 1. Taken on loan. borrowed days: in Cheshire, the first eleven days of May, so called because in Old Style they belonged to April; see borrowing n.1 c. borrowed time: an unexpected extension of time, esp. of a person's life. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > borrowed time borrowed timec1440 the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > [adjective] lent13.. borrowedc1440 lended1592 mutuated1598 mutuatitious1625 mutuatitial1654 the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > March > last three days of March borrowing daysc1550 borrowed days1646 c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 105 A borowed bene sette I noght be hym. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica So it is usual among us..to ascribe unto March certain borrowed days from April. View more context for this quotation 1688 Answer Talon's Plea 27 The Palace..where he resides, being but a borrowed house. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 245 He rode away..on a borrowed horse, which he never returned. 1887 N.E.D. at Borrowed Scotch Pop. Rime But when the borrowed days were gane, The three silly hoggs cam hirplan' hame. 1898 E.D.D. (at cited word) A man who lives on borrowed time lives on trespass-ground. Ay, all mine is borrowed time, noo. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xviii. 148 Brody was living on borrowed time. 1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused iii. 26 After the age of forty-five one's living on borrowed time. 2. transferred and figurative. a. Taken or used at second-hand, not one's own; assumed, counterfeit, ‘put on’; adopted or adapted for the nonce. borrowed light, (a) reflected light (see quot. 1834); also figurative; (b) see quot. 1963. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > reflected light reflectionc1475 borrowed light1571 reflect1594 resultance1618 resultancy1628 reverberation1860 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative secondary1398 borrowed1571 third hand1598 denominative1624 second hand1654 second-handed1682 of second hand1708 unoriginal1749 uninventive1776 unoriginative1845 uncreative1855 hand-me-down1881 reach-me-down1907 cookie cutter1922 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (i. 1) A borowed maner of speech. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo3v Her bright browes were deckt with borrowed haire. 1621–31 W. Laud Seven Serm. (1847) 8 Most of the later divines are for the borrowed sense. 1657 Bp. H. King Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonnets 139 Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is streight call'd in, and paid to night. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxvii. 81 [Bedlow] had travelled over many parts of Europe under borrowed names. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxxvi. 408 If comets shine by borrowed light. 1880 F. Hall in 19th Cent. Sept. 426 Has borrowed English been a peculiarity of the last two or three centuries? 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. ii. 39 Behind the shop was an extremely small room, the ‘parlour’, with a fireplace, a borrowed light and glass-door upon the shop and a larger window upon the yard behind. 1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 13 Borrowed light, a glazed..opening in an internal wall or partition designed to admit light. b. In organ-building, said of a pipe, a stop, or a set of them which is sounded at the expense of another or is incomplete of itself and is eked out by the use of pipes of another stop or set. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [adjective] > types of pipes or stops stopped1595 open1636 labial1837 borrowed1840 through1853 stopless1899 derived- 1840 in G. Grove Dict. Music (1880) II. 600/2 ‘Borrowed’ Solo Organ. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 595/1 Choir Organ. 2 real stops; 4 borrowed... Borrowed by communication from the Great Organ. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 595/2 The extra department consisted of a complete borrowed organ of 13 stops derived from the Great Organ. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 595/2 Second Great Organ. 13 borrowed stops. 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