lend
v. 借钱; 借出; 提供; 平添
When people or organizations such as banks lend you money, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at a future date, often with an extra amount as interest.
The bank is reassessing its criteria for lending money...
银行正重新评估其贷款标准。
I had to lend him ten pounds to take his children to the pictures.
我只好借给他10英镑,让他带孩子们去看电影。
If you lend something that you own, you allow someone to have it or use it for a period of time.
Will you lend me your jacket for a little while?...
你能把上衣借给我穿一会儿吗?
He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.
他把那间平房借给康拉德一家住了两三个星期。
If you lend your support to someone or something, you help them with what they are doing or with a problem that they have.
He was approached by the organisers to lend support to a benefit concert...
主办方找过他,希望他能对慈善音乐会给予支持。
Stipe attended yesterday's news conference to lend his support.
斯蒂普出席了昨天的新闻发布会以示支持。
If something lends itself to a particular activity or result, it is easy for it to be used for that activity or to achieve that result.
The room lends itself well to summer eating with its light, airy atmosphere.
这个房间又亮堂又通风,夏天在此用餐最合适不过。
If something lends a particular quality to something else, it adds that quality to it.
Enthusiastic applause lent a sense of occasion to the proceedings...
热烈的掌声给活动平添了几分隆重的色彩。
A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
由于管理较为宽松而且经常从事劳动,这里的囚犯因此多了一份其他监狱的囚犯所没有的尊严感。
1. bestow a quality on;
2. give temporarily; let have for a limited time;
3. have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to;
lend, borrow, loan
这些动词均含"借"之意。
lend an ear
倾听,洗耳恭听
lend a hand (或 a helping hand)
lend one's name to
以名义支持
lend a helping hand
有助于
You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to lend you 100 dollars.
如果你以为我会借给你100美元,你准是疯了.
I was going to ask him to lend me a hand when he came just in time.
我正想找他来帮帮忙,可好他来了.
The company will lend you money on very unfavourable terms.
这家公司会以非常刻薄的条件借钱给你.
The man was accommodating enough to lend me a dollar.
那个人很慷慨地借给我一块钱.
Some people neither borrow nor lend.
有些人既不借也不贷.