borrows

英 [ˈbɒrəʊz]

美 [ˈbɔːroʊz]

v.  借; 借用; 借入(款项); (向…)借贷; 引用，借用(思想、言语等)
borrow的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 借；借用
  If youborrowsomething that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
  1. Can I borrow a pen please? ...
     我可以借支笔吗？
  2. He wouldn't let me borrow his clothes.
     他不愿我借他的衣服。
• VERB 借（钱）；贷（款）
  If youborrowmoneyfromsomeone orfroma bank, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at some time in the future.
  1. 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。
  2. It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies...
     从信贷公司借钱利息非常高。
  3. He borrowed heavily to get the money together.
     他大量举债来凑齐这笔钱。
• VERB 借（书）
  If youborrowa bookfroma library, you take it away for a fixed period of time.
  1. 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。
• VERB 采用，借用（词语、想法等）
  If youborrowsomething 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.
  1. I borrowed his words for my book's title...
     我借用他的话作为我这本书的标题。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 捡回一条命；余下的光阴不多；好景不长
  Someone whois living on borrowed timeor whois on borrowed timehas continued to live or to do something for longer than was expected, and is likely to die or be stopped from doing it soon.
  1. 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。

Do not confuseborrowandlend. You say that youborrowsomethingfromanother person. However, if you allow someone toborrowsomething that belongs to you, you say that youlendittothem.Lendis often followed by two objects.Betty lent him some blankets... He lent Tim the money.Bothborrowandlendcan be used without objects.The poor had to borrow from the rich... Banks will not lend to them.The noun related tolendisloan....a government loan of £3m.Loancan also be used as a verb in the same way aslend, especially in American English.I'll loan you fifty dollars.
不要混淆 borrow 和 lend。借他人的东西用borrow...from..., 但借东西给他人则用lend...to...。lend后常接双宾语：Betty lent him some blankets（贝蒂借给他几条毯子），He lent Tim the money（他把钱借给了蒂姆）。borrow 和 lend 都可以不接宾语：The poor had to borrow from the rich（穷人不得不向富人借钱），Banks will not lend to them（银行不会贷款给他们）。和lend相关的名词是 loan: a government loan of £3m（一笔300万英镑的政府贷款）。loan还可用作动词，其用法与lend相同，尤其是在美国英语中：I'll loan you fifty dollars（我会借给你50美元）。

双语例句

• In fact, great web design borrows the entire concept of web space from the printed medium.
  事实上，好的网页设计借用了印刷品刊物页面空间布局方式的整个概念。
• It borrows from the way mother kangaroos carry their young in front in a pouch.
  他是借用袋鼠妈妈携带他们的幼崽在前面的一个育儿袋里。
• Her poetry borrows from shakespeare.
  她写的诗模仿了莎士比亚的风格。
• Modern database technology borrows this phrase in naming the data modeling behind various database technologies.
  现代数据库技术借用了这一术语来命名不同数据库技术之下的数据建模时。
• PHP borrows much of the syntax and design of namespaces from other languages& most notably C++.
  PHP从其他语言中借鉴了很多名称空间的语法和设计&最突出的是C++。
• The exchange fund also borrows money from banks in its own liquidity management for the investment portfolio.
  外汇基金在管理投资组合的流动资金时，亦会向银行借入资金。
• An internal DSL builds new languages atop a base language, whose syntax it borrows and stylizes.
  一个内部DSL在基本语言基础之上构建新的语言，并借用和样式化基本语言的语法。
• We get on well, but she always borrows my things.
  我们相处很好，但她总是借我的东西。
• One should return what one borrows.
  借东西要还。
• As its name suggests, evolutionary design borrows its ideas from biology.
  正如名字中表示的，进化设计的想法是取自生物学。