| 词组 | borrow |
| 释义 | borrow 1. The usual preposition linking borrow to the person or source is from: • ... consents to borrow money from a usurer — Moody E. Prior, American Scholar, Autumn 1981 • ... borrowed a scene from another play —Current Biography, September 1965 • ... items of erudition borrowed directly from ancient sources —Robert A. Hall, Jr., A Short History of Italian Literature, 1951 • "I like him because I have not read the books from which he has borrowed his opinions...." —George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession, 1886 Of is used, but seems old-fashioned: • ... my desire to borrow them of their parents — Henry Miller, The Air-ConditionedNightmare, 1945 • ... what? not one single book? Oh, but... you can borrow of the parson —Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 15 July 1711 On may also be used: • ... borrowing heavily on the ideas of their European colleagues —Dictionary of American History, 1940 The prepositions off and off of appear to be limited to speech. Occasionally they may turn up in fiction: • ... she even used to borrow books off me sometimes —Margaret Drabble, The Needle's Eye, 1972 Of is also used sometimes to link borrow with the object borrowed: • A few decades ago, songwriters borrowed freely of these words —Phoenix Flame, 1954 • Mr. Jim had a lantern to peer out the ruts of the road.... Effie Turpin walked behind him to borrow of his light —Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man, 1926 A preposition may likewise be used with borrow to indicate the collateral put up for a loan. On seems to have been used first and is still current: • "... One time I borrowed on my saddle from the fella that was promotin' the show " —Richard Wormser, The Lonesome Quarter, 1951 • ... lived on what he could borrow on his expectations —John Fulton, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 29 July 1968 The present favorite in financial circles is against: • ... policyholders who can borrow against the cash value of their life insurance policies —Changing Times, May 1981 2. The use of borrow to mean "lend" is dialectal. The Dictionary of American Regional English finds it most prevalent in the Northern area west of the Great Lakes. |
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