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borrow 音标拼音: [b'ɑr ,o] vt. 借,借入,借用
vi. 借 借,借入,借用借 borrow借位 borrow借 借位 borrow v 1: get temporarily; " May I borrow your lawn mower?" [ ant: { lend}, { loan}] 2: take up and practice as one' s own [ synonym: { adopt}, { borrow}, { take over}, { take up}] Borrow \ Bor" row\, n. 1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The act of borrowing. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Of your royal presence I' ll adventure The borrow of a week. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Borrow \ Bor" row\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Borrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Borrowing}.] [ OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. ? 95. See 1st { Borough}.] 1. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Arith.) To take ( one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. [ 1913 Webster] Rites borrowed from the ancients. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To feign or counterfeit. " Borrowed hair." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] The borrowed majesty of England. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To receive; to take; to derive. [ 1913 Webster] Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { To borrow trouble}, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " borrow": abstract, act like, adopt, affect, and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, boost, bum, cadge, chorus, cop, copy, counterfeit, crib, defraud, discount, discount notes, ditto, do, do like, draw, echo, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, float a loan, forge, get a loan, get into debt, get on credit, go in debt, go in hock, go like, hit one for, hit up, hoke, hoke up, hook, imitate, infringe a copyright, lend, lift, make like, make off with, mirror, mooch, negotiate a loan, nip, obtain, palm, pawn, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, plunge into debt, poach, purloin, raise money, reecho, refer to, reflect, repeat, run away with, run into debt, rustle, scrounge, shave, shoplift, show a deficit, simulate, snare, snatch, snitch, sponge, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, touch, walk off with
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