borrow
英 ['bɒrəʊ]
美['bɑro]
- vi. 借；借用；从其他语言中引入
- vt. 借；借用
- n. (Borrow)人名；(英)博罗
词态变化
第三人称单数: borrows;过去式: borrowed;过去分词: borrowed;现在分词: borrowing;
中文词源
borrow 借
来自PIE *bhergh(1), 保护。词源同harbor, 港口。来自旧时借东西需提供抵押品作为担保。
英英释意
- 1. get temporarily;
- "May I borrow your lawn mower?"
- 2. take up and practice as one's own
英文词源
- borrow
- borrow: [OE] Modern English borrow is a descendant of Old English borgian, which came from the Germanic base *borg-. This was a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow ‘mound’) and *burg- (source of English borough and bury). The underlying sense of the Germanic base was ‘protection, shelter’, and the development of meaning in the case of borrow seems to have been like this: originally, to borrow something from somebody was to receive it temporarily from them in return for some sort of security, which would be forfeited if the thing borrowed were not kept safe and eventually returned.
Gradually, the notion of giving some sort of concrete security, such as money, weakened into a spoken pledge, which by modern times had become simply the unspoken assumption that anything that has been borrowed must by definition be returned.
=> barrow, borough, bury - borrow (v.)
- Old English borgian "to lend, be surety for," from Proto-Germanic *borg "pledge" (cognates: Old English borg "pledge, security, bail, debt," Old Norse borga "to become bail for, guarantee," Middle Dutch borghen "to protect, guarantee," Old High German boragen "to beware of," German borgen "to borrow; to lend"), from PIE root *bhergh- (1) "to hide, protect" (see bury). Sense shifted in Old English to "borrow," apparently on the notion of collateral deposited as security for something borrowed. Related: Borrowed; borrowing.
同义词辨析
lend, borrow, loan
这些动词均含"借"之意。
lend： 指将自己的东西借出给别人，也可用于借喻意义。
borrow： 指从某人或某处借来某物，也可用作比喻。
loan： 指通过正式的手续，借数目较大的贷款。在美国也可指借出东西。
考试真题
- Consumers who borrowed too much?
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- they have borrowed too heavily and accumulated too large amounts of debt
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Borrowing ideas from alcohol control measures.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping?
出自-2010年6月听力原文
- I really believe the core idea of making is to have an idea within your head一or you just borrow it from someone一and begin to develop it, repeat it and improve it.
2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
- She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there were no tomorrow.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- Unlike the Americans, who felt that the markets knew best, the Europeans failed to anticipate how the markets would react to their endless borrowing
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- Janet, here's the book I borrowed from you, but I'm so sorry that I can't find its jacket.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
- Borrow some money from the woman.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
- They want to borrow a huge sum from the bank.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- The man borrowed the book from the library.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
- Oh, I'm so sorry I forgot to bring along the book you borrowed from the library
出自-2010年6月听力原文
- By the way, how many books can I borrow at a time?
2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
- I can borrow it from him for you.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
- I'm a new student, and I want to borrow some books.
2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
- One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to help cure him of his reading problem.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设
- Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.
出自-2013年考研翻译原文
- The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt.
2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
词组搭配
be (living) on borrowed time
used to convey that someone has continued to survive against expectations, with the implication that they will not do so for much longer
生命意外延长的时间；比预期稍长的有限时间
borrow trouble
To take an unnecessary action that will probably engender adverse effects.
自找麻烦：采取一个可能会产生负面效果的不必要的行动
实用场景例句
- Can I borrow your umbrella?
- 借你的伞用一下行吗？
牛津词典
- Members can borrow up to ten books from the library at any one time.
- 会员在图书馆每次最多可借十本书。
牛津词典
- She borrowed £2 000 from her parents.
- 她向她的父母借了2 000英镑。
牛津词典
- I don't like to borrow from friends.
- 我不喜欢向朋友借钱。
牛津词典
- The author borrows heavily from Henry James.
- 那位作家大量引用亨利·詹姆斯的作品。
牛津词典
- Some musical terms are borrowed from Italian.
- 某些音乐术语是从意大利语引入的。
牛津词典
- It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies...
- 从信贷公司借钱利息非常高。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I couldn't afford to buy any, so I borrowed them from the library.
- 我一本书也买不起，只好从图书馆借。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I borrowed his words for my book's title...
- 我借用他的话作为我这本书的标题。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Their engineers are happier borrowing other people's ideas than developing their own.
- 他们的工程师更乐于借用别人的观点，而不愿自我创新。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Perhaps that illness, diagnosed as fatal, gave him a sense of living on borrowed time.
- 也许是那种被诊断为绝症的疾病让他有了时日无多之感。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Morgan borrowed £5,000 from his father to form the company 20 years ago...
- 20年前摩根从他父亲那里借了5,000英镑，成立了这家公司。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Can I borrow a pen please? ...
- 我可以借支笔吗？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes.
- 他不愿我借他的衣服。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Can I borrow two books at a time?
- 我可以一次借两本书 吗 ?
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- So I called on you and asked if I could borrow some jeweler.
- 所以我去拜访你,问我能否借些首饰.
期刊摘选
- It's easy to borrow again if one returns the borrowed things in time.
- 好借好还,再借不难.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- You can borrow this dictionary from the library.
- 你可以从图书馆借到这本字典.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- I'm now up to my ears in debt and dare not borrow any more money.
- 我现在是债台高筑,再也不敢借钱了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Some people neither borrow nor lend.
- 有些人既不借也不贷.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Of course he would be ashamed to borrow often.
- 当然,常常向人借钱他自己也会惭愧的.
《简明英汉词典》
- When the government is in a tight squeeze it usually tries to borrow money from abroad.
- 每当政府陷入财政困难,总是试图借贷外债.
《简明英汉词典》
- We can not borrow money during the present credIt'squeeze.
- 在银根紧的时候,我们借不出钱来.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- She permitted me to borrow the book.
- 她允许我借那本书.
《简明英汉词典》
- If it comes to the push we could always borrow a bit more money from the bank.
- 如有急需,我们总能从银行多借一点钱.
《简明英汉词典》
- I don't care if you borrow my dictionary sometimes, but taking it without asking and keeping it is something else again.
- 我不在乎你偶尔用我的字典, 但是未经允许而擅自取用,用后不归还,那就是另一回事了.
《简明英汉词典》
- Can I borrow a pencil? — Yes, help yourself.
- 我能借用一支铅笔 吗 ?——可以, 自己拿吧.
《简明英汉词典》
- She used to borrow money from her friends.
- 她常向她的朋友们借钱.
《简明英汉词典》
- Is it okay with you if I borrow this book?
- 我借这本书你不在意吧?
《简明英汉词典》