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单词 borrowing
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Definition of borrowing in English:

borrowing

noun ˈbɒrəʊɪŋˈbɑroʊɪŋ
mass noun
  • 1The action of borrowing something.

    a curb on government borrowing
    count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn.
    • The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres.
    • But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight.
    • This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal.
    • Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year.
    • American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group.
    • This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing.
    • Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing.
    • Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year.
    • Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing.
    • Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003.
    • As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year.
    • Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high.
    • By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros.
    • I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing.
    • The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial.
    • And borrowing has reached almost £280 million.
    • Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state.
    • According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone.
    • All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card.
    1. 1.1count noun A word or idea taken from another language, person, or source and used in one's own language or work.
      the majority of designs were borrowings from the continent
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment.
      • Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton.
      • Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers.
      • His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
      • Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it.
      • How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square.
      • A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past.
      • The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics.
      • The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual.
      • A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin.
      • Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm.
      • Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
      • I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history.
      • German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass.
      • Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
      • In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
      • Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups.
      • Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
      • The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms.
      • The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture.
 
 

Definition of borrowing in US English:

borrowing

nounˈbɑroʊɪŋˈbärōiNG
  • 1The action of borrowing something.

    count noun the group had total borrowings of $570 million
    the borrowing of clothes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Officers are still trying to find out whether the £5 million for borrowing is available for more than one year.
    • Over the first five months of the fiscal year public borrowing has totalled £16.8bn, more than double the figure for the same period last year.
    • As a final note, the interest on National's proposed borrowing is around $150 million a year.
    • But what we are most concerned about is the lack of a proper business plan for the planned borrowing of £16 million to fund a new central library that just can't be paid back overnight.
    • This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal.
    • All that is required for borrowing is a valid university identification card or a valid participating regional consortia card.
    • Though critical in itself, it still accounts for just one-third of total borrowing in the state.
    • I know these are tiny examples, but I'm sure more could be done in the way of borrowing and sharing.
    • The most recent estimate of the total of Calonne's borrowing is 651 million livres.
    • Another reason for the disparity of interest rates is a lack of corporate borrowing.
    • Even though interest rates had fallen by 2.75% in the past three years, he said the cost of borrowing for business still remained exorbitantly high.
    • Consumers continue to go deeper into debt as the latest credit figures reveal that borrowing rose strongly at 16% in the year to the end of May 2003.
    • Total borrowing by pensioners through these schemes is £2.3bn.
    • By 1998, net borrowing had reached 660 million euros.
    • This is Monopoly stuff, with hundreds of millions of pounds of borrowing.
    • The emergence of specific-purpose vehicles like PPPs has changed infrastructure investment, but the need for government borrowing is still substantial.
    • And borrowing has reached almost £280 million.
    • According to the British Bankers' Association, new borrowing on credit cards totalled just over £6.5 billion last month alone.
    • Marguerite Gracy, head of Bolton Libraries, says that while borrowing of books and audio visual material may be declining, the number of people visiting libraries is increasing.
    • American students are taking out more loans without understanding the consequences borrowing can have on them after graduation, says a late March report by a public advocacy group.
    1. 1.1 A word, idea, or method taken from another source and used in one's own language or work.
      a hard-bop musician with some borrowings from free jazz
      Example sentencesExamples
      • German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass.
      • Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton.
      • The use of the voluntary sector is a convenient method of concealing the number of people employed by central and local government and removing the necessary borrowings from public statistics.
      • The focus on the disappearance of existing words and the formation of new words provided insight into loan-words and borrowings as well as obsolete terms.
      • Moreover, even with the borrowings from flamenco, the movement vocabulary was thin, with very little formal choreography.
      • Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices.
      • Constancio's rejection of Paine's deism illustrates that liberals were selective in their borrowings from the ‘canonical’ Enlightenment.
      • Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm.
      • In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
      • His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
      • The clientele for McCulloch's hotels has always been cosmopolitan and he freely acknowledges his borrowings from French hotel and restaurant culture.
      • I was, however, interested in Scots Gothic and ballads, having been sidetracked slightly in my research by Muriel Spark's use of the supernatural and her borrowings from Scotland's dark history.
      • Indeed, many of the colonial terms which puzzled the new chums were not colonial-grown, but borrowings from various British dialects.
      • Religion in the lives of tropical forest foragers increasingly reflects borrowings from neighboring African groups.
      • A few more aphorisms have been found as borrowings from the past.
      • The riot is ‘deconstructed’ to show how all its materials are forms of borrowings from other sources, a fact which apparently precludes it from being genuinely spiritual.
      • A similar phenomenon occurred in Old English, in which very many abstract words were formed by compounds of native Germanic words, instead of by borrowings from Latin.
      • Burying one's learned borrowings from ‘sources’ was a craft which one picked up from one's teachers.
      • How borrowings from Hindi words have changed since the end of the Raj is evident from what I once saw in London's Trafalgar Square.
      • Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it.
 
 
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