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VERB
借（錢）(給…)；（銀行）貨（款）
When people or organizations such as banks lend you money, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at a future date, often with an extra amount as interest.
例句
The bank is reassessing its criteria for lending money...
銀行正重新評估其貸款標準。
I had to lend him ten pounds to take his children to the pictures.
我只好借給他10英鎊，讓他帶孩子們去看電影。
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VERB
借出；把…借給
If you lend something that you own, you allow someone to have it or use it for a period of time.
例句
Will you lend me your jacket for a little while?...
你能把上衣借給我穿一會兒嗎？
He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.
他把那間平房借給康拉德一家住了兩三個星期。
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VERB
提供，給予（支持）
If you lend your support to someone or something, you help them with what they are doing or with a problem that they have.
例句
He was approached by the organisers to lend support to a benefit concert...
主辦方找過他，希望他能對慈善音樂會給予支持。
Stipe attended yesterday's news conference to lend his support.
斯蒂普出席了昨天的新聞發布會以示支持。
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VERB
使適合；使有幫助；使易遭受
If something lends itself to a particular activity or result, it is easy for it to be used for that activity or to achieve that result.
例句
The room lends itself well to summer eating with its light, airy atmosphere.
這個房間又亮堂又通風，夏天在此用餐最合適不過。
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VERB
平添；增添；賦予
If something lends a particular quality to something else, it adds that quality to it.
例句
Enthusiastic applause lent a sense of occasion to the proceedings...
熱烈的掌聲給活動平添了幾分隆重的色彩。
A more relaxed regime and regular work lends the inmates a dignity not seen in other prisons.
由于管理較為寬松而且經常從事勞動，這里的囚犯因此多了一份其他監獄的囚犯所沒有的尊嚴感。