英语相似词辨析 lend,loan(在线收听) |
lend,loan 这一对词都表示“借出”的意思,但词性和使用场合有所不同。 Lend是动词,它的过去式和过去分词是lent。用作转义时,可作“帮助”解。例: Please lend me one thousand dollars. 请你借一千元给我。 I neither lend nor borrow. 我既不借出,也不借入。 由上列最后一例可见,“借物给人”是lend,“问人借物”是borrow。 Please lend me a hand in lifting this desk. 请帮我抬一下这张桌子。 We will lend you all the assistance in our power. 我们愿意尽力帮助你。 Loan是名词,用起来较lend正式。 He received a loan of one million dollars from the bank to tide over his financial difficulty. 他得到银行贷款一百万元以度过财务困境。 This bicycle is a loan,not a gift. 这自行车是借给你的,不是送给你的。 Many paintings in the art gallery are on loan from private collections. 艺术馆内不少油画是从私人珍藏中借来的。 但在现代美式英语里loan已用作动词,相当于lend,如: The library loans out many books a day. I lent him my tuxedo.(英式英语) I loaned him my dinner coat.(美式英语) 注:tuxedo等于dinner coat。前者是British English;后者是 American English。 Loan 除了“出借”之意外,尚可表示“公债”、“借款”等义。如:public loan是“公债”,foreign loan 是“外债”。 |
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