lend
v. 借錢; 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...
銀行正重新評估其貸款標準。
I had to lend him ten pounds to take his children to the pictures.
我只好借給他10英鎊,讓他帶孩子們去看電影。
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?...
你能把上衣借給我穿一會兒嗎?
He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.
他把那間平房借給康拉德一家住了兩三個星期。
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...
主辦方找過他,希望他能對慈善音樂會給予支援。
Stipe attended yesterday's news conference to lend his support.
斯蒂普出席了昨天的新聞釋出會以示支援。
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.
這個房間又亮堂又通風,夏天在此用餐最合適不過。
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...
熱烈的掌聲給活動平添了幾分隆重的色彩。
A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
由於管理較為寬鬆而且經常從事勞動,這裡的囚犯因此多了一份其他監獄的囚犯所沒有的尊嚴感。
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
這些動詞均含"借"之意。
lend an ear
傾聽,洗耳恭聽
lend a hand (或 a helping hand)
lend one's name to
以名義支援
lend a helping hand
有助於
You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to lend you 100 dollars.
如果你以為我會借給你100美元,你準是瘋了.
I was going to ask him to lend me a hand when he came just in time.
我正想找他來幫幫忙,可好他來了.
The company will lend you money on very unfavourable terms.
這家公司會以非常刻薄的條件借錢給你.
The man was accommodating enough to lend me a dollar.
那個人很慷慨地借給我一塊錢.
Some people neither borrow nor lend.
有些人既不借也不貸.