borrow
v. 借,貸; 借用,引用
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? ...
我可以借支筆嗎?
He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes.
他不願我借他的衣服。
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...
20年前摩根從他父親那裡借了5,000英鎊,成立了這家公司。
It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies...
從信貸公司借錢利息非常高。
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.
我一本書也買不起,只好從圖書館借。
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...
我借用他的話作為我這本書的標題。
Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own.
他們的工程師更樂於借用別人的觀點,而不願自我創新。
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.
也許是那種被診斷為絕症的疾病讓他有了時日無多之感。
1. get temporarily;
2. take up and practice as one's own
lend, borrow, loan
這些動詞均含"借"之意。
be (living) on borrowed time
生命意外延長的時間;比預期稍長的有限時間
borrow trouble
自找麻煩:採取一個可能會產生負面效果的不必要的行動
Can I borrow two books at a time?
我可以一次借兩本書 嗎 ?
So I called on you and asked if I could borrow some jeweler.
所以我去拜訪你,問我能否借些首飾.
It's easy to borrow again if one returns the borrowed things in time.
好借好還,再借不難.
You can borrow this dictionary from the library.
你可以從圖書館借到這本字典.
I'm now up to my ears in debt and dare not borrow any more money.
我現在是債臺高築,再也不敢借錢了.