“borrower”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

borrower

释义

borrower|ˈbɒrəʊə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er.]
1. One who takes a thing on security or on credit.
c1440Promp. Parv. 44 Borware [1499 borower], mutuator, sponsor.1602Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 75 Neither a borrower, nor a lender be.1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 15 Here are both to the Lender and Borrower great Advantages.1776Adam Smith W.N. I. ii. iv. 360 Sober people are universally preferred as borrowers.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 314 The borrower should be under no obligation to repay either capital or interest.
2. transf. and fig. One who adopts a thing, uses it temporarily, or takes it at second-hand.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. i. 27, I must become a borrower of the Night, For a darke houre, or twaine.1750Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 236 We have been remarkable borrowers, as our multiform language may sufficiently shew.1876M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 215 He..would not have become thus a borrower from Jesus.

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