Borrow

(verb.) get temporarily; 'May I borrow your lawn mower?'.

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• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I didn't beg, borrow, or steal it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Well, but--look here: you could BORROW on it any time you wanted. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Once in Maysville I could borrow a horse from an uncle who lived there; but I was more than a day's travel from that point. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was the duty of the banks, they seemed to think, to lend for as long a time, and to as great an extent, as they might wish to borrow. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Better to borrow, better to beg, better to die! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No, you shall not go there to borrow an umbrella, or find out where he is, from his friends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I am an impoverished wretch--the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Everywhere governments had been borrowing and issuing paper promises to pay interest, more interest than they could conveniently raise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In this exigency, government can have no other resource but in borrowing. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He devised a pegging machine, and out of his scanty earnings and at odd hours, with much pain and labour, and by borrowing money, he finally completed it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I've come a-borrowing, Mrs. Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Rachael made the tea (so large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup), and the visitor enjoyed it mightily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He introduces Rick, and then he is good friends with Mr. Vholes and borrows five pounds of him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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