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

• He borrows your bike and your may borrow hers.
  他借你的自行车，你可以借她的。
• He neither lends nor borrows.
  他既不借给人也不向人借。
• 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。
• One should return what one borrows.
  借东西要还。
• 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。
• China saves and invests; the US talks, consumes, borrows, and talks some more.
  中国在储蓄和投资；而美国在空谈、消费、借款和更多地空谈。
• 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。
• 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。
• My wife borrows a lot of romances and travelogs from the municipal library.
  我太太从市立图书馆借了很多爱情小说和游记。
• The styling borrows cues for the Ford Kuga sold in Europe.
  它的造型则借鉴了欧版的福特Kuga。