borrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++bor·row /ˈbɒrəʊ $ ˈbɑːroʊ, ˈbɔː-/ ●●● S2 W3 verb [intransitive, transitive] 1 BORROWto use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them later 借，借用 → lend, loan Can I borrow your pen for a minute? 我可以借你的笔用一下吗？borrow something from somebody You are allowed to borrow six books from the library at a time. 你每次可从图书馆借六本书。 They borrowed heavily (=borrowed a lot of money) from the bank to start their new business. 他们向银行贷了巨款来创办新公司。 ► Do not confuse borrow and lend (=give someone permission to use something of yours): I borrowed his bike. | Can you lend me your pen?不要混淆 borrow and lend (借出): I borrowed his bike.我借了他的自行车。 | Can you lend me your pen? 你可以把笔借给我用一下吗？2 COPYto take or copy someone’s ideas, words etc and use them in your own work, language etc 借用，引用〔思想、文字等〕borrow something from somebody/something I borrowed my ideas from Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Waste Land’. 我的主题思想借自艾略特的名诗《荒原》。 To borrow a phrase (=use what someone else has said), if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. 我借用一句老话，受不了热就别在厨房待着。borrow from English has borrowed words from many languages. 英语借用了很多语言中的词汇。3. borrow trouble WORRIED American English informal to worry about something when it is not necessary 自寻烦恼 → be living on borrowed time at live1(17), → beg, borrow, or steal at beg(8)→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
borrow• The interest payable on a Car Loan is added to the capital amount you have borrowed.• In 1605, five years after ordination, he borrowed a horse, sold it and disappeared for two years.• Last month we were able to borrow a votive candle stand, which stands in the Lady Chapel area.• Companies normally expect to borrow at cheaper rates than ordinary people have to pay.• Can I borrow five pounds off you till next week?• Do not be tempted to borrow from friends or neighbours, nomatterhow desperate you are.• Everything else is borrowed from other places, and it has that transplanted feel to it.• Rogers discovered that his own humor worked better than jokes borrowed from other writers.• Her life was miserable because she could only live in that cycle: borrowing from the trader and selling it to him.• Maxwell had borrowed heavily to finance his business projects.• I wish Steve would buy himself a bike. He's always borrowing mine.• She found the poem in a book she'd borrowed off Mrs Parsons.• By the end of the war the Canadian government had borrowed over $5 billion from its own citizens.• I borrowed this dress from my sister.• Careful as he is to cultivate bankers, Mr Murdoch borrows to avoid being controlled.• Can I borrow your car for the weekend?borrowed heavily• Samurai retainers, too, borrowed heavily.• Most worrying are smaller companies which borrowed heavily but do not have big banks behind them.• And it is what happened to the Republic of Ireland, where successive administrations borrowed heavily for job creation purposes.• During the inflationary period the universe borrowed heavily from its gravitational energy to finance the creation of more matter.• Many firms had borrowed heavily to cover their losses, driving government banks into insolvency.• Many companies had borrowed heavily to cover their losses.From Longman Business Dictionaryborrowbor‧row /ˈbɒrəʊˈbɑːroʊ, ˈbɔː-/ verb [intransitive, transitive] to receive money from a person or organization which you must pay back laterNowhere else in Europe can home-buyers borrow 100% of the purchase price.borrow something from somebodyYour business can borrow money from your pension fund on normal commercial terms. → compare lend→ See Verb tableOrigin borrow Old English borgianbor·row verbChineseSyllable
Corpus to Business use that belongs to someone something
borrow
bor‧row S2 W3 /ˈbɒrəʊ $ ˈbɑːroʊ, ˈbɔː-/
verb [intransitive and transitive]
Can I borrow your pen for a minute?
borrow something from somebody
You are allowed to borrow six books from the library at a time.
They borrowed heavily (=borrowed a lot of money) from the bank to start their new business.
► Do not confuse borrow and lend (=give someone permission to use something of yours): I borrowed his bike. | Can you lend me your pen?
2. to take or copy someone’s ideas, words etc and use them in your own work, language etc
borrow something from somebody/something
I borrowed my ideas from Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Waste Land’.
To borrow a phrase (=use what someone else has said), if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
borrow from
English has borrowed words from many languages.
3. borrow trouble American English informal to worry about something when it is not necessary
⇨ be living on borrowed time at live1(17), ⇨ beg, borrow, or steal at beg(8)
bor‧row S2 W3 /ˈbɒrəʊ $ ˈbɑːroʊ, ˈbɔː-/
verb [intransitive and transitive] Language: Old English
Origin: borgian
1. to use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them later ⇨ lend, loan:Origin: borgian
borrow something from somebody
► Do not confuse borrow and lend (=give someone permission to use something of yours): I borrowed his bike. | Can you lend me your pen?
2. to take or copy someone’s ideas, words etc and use them in your own work, language etc
borrow something from somebody/something
borrow from
3. borrow trouble American English informal to worry about something when it is not necessary
⇨ be living on borrowed time at live1(17), ⇨ beg, borrow, or steal at beg(8)
These two words are often confused. You borrow something from someone else, while theylend it to you.这两个词常被混淆，借入用 borrow，借出用 lend ：◆ Can I borrow your pen? 我可以借用你的钢笔吗？ ◆ Can I borrow a pen from you? 我可以借用你的钢笔吗？ ◆ Here, I'll lend you my pen. 喏，我把钢笔借给你。
