| 词组 | lend |
| 释义 | lend 1. See loan, lend. 2. Some of the commentators who want to discourage the use of loan as a verb go on to comment that only loan is a noun, not lend. Well, almost right but not quite. Lend is a noun, though not in ordinary American English. It has been in the language since the end of the 16th century, but was at first spelled len or lenne, acquiring its terminal d only in the 18th century (the d on the verb lend is also unetymological). It seems to have been used chiefly on the outskirts of mainstream British English, in northern dialects, in Scotland, in Australia and New Zealand; one of our American citations is from an Irish-American milieu, so it may have been used in Irish English too. • "Run out to Mrs. Mullins in the Front Room and ask her for the lend of her brass fender," she cried — Mary Lavin, Atlantic, June 1956 • "... Why don't you get the lend of a truck one night " —Ross Franklyn, in Coast to Coast: Australian Stories 1946 |
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