lend S3 W3 / lend / 动词 ( past tense and past participle lent / lent / )
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a) [及物动词] to let someone borrow money or something that belongs to you for a short time → borrow
lend something to somebody
I lent my CD player to Dave and I haven’t got it back yet.
lend somebody something
The hospital agreed to lend us a wheelchair.
Can you lend me £10 until tomorrow?
b) [不及物和及物动词] if a bank or financial institution lends money, it lets someone have it on condition that they pay it back later, often gradually, with an additional amount as interest :
The government is trying to encourage the banks to lend more.
lend something to somebody
A lot of banks are unwilling to lend money to new businesses.
lend somebody something
The building society agreed to lend us £60,000.
2 lend (somebody) a hand to help someone do something, especially something that needs physical effort :
Can you lend me a hand with this?
3 [及物动词] formal to give a situation, event etc a particular quality
lend something to something
The presence of members of the royal family lent a certain dignity to the ceremony.
4 lend an ear to listen to someone, especially in a sympathetic way :
He’s always prepared to lend a sympathetic ear.
5 lend itself to something to be suitable for being used in a particular way :
None of her books really lends itself to being made into a film.
6 lend (your) support (to something) to support or help someone :
The government has now lent its support to the campaign.
7 lend weight/support to something to make an opinion or belief seem more likely to be correct :
The police have new evidence which lends weight to their theory.
8 lend your name to something to an 名词 ce publicly that you support something that someone is trying to do :
The French prime minister has now lent his name to the protest.
THESAURUS
lend ( also loan especially American English ) to let someone borrow money or something that belongs to you for a short time : Can you lend me $20? | Did you lend that book to Mike? | The documents were loaned by the local library.
let somebody use something/let somebody have something to let someone use something that belongs to you for a short time, especially a room, a house, or something big and expensive : Some friends are letting us use their house while they are on vacation. | Dad said he’d let me have his car for the weekend.
be on loan if something is on loan, it has been lent to a person or organization in an official way – often used about a library book or a work of art : The museum has an exhibition of paintings on loan from the Louvre. | According to the computer, this book is still out on loan.