Lend

(verb.) give temporarily; let have for a limited time; 'I will lend you my car'; 'loan me some money'.

(verb.) bestow a quality on; 'Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company'; 'The music added a lot to the play'; 'She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings'; 'This adds a light note to the program'.

(verb.) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to; 'This story would lend itself well to serialization on television'; 'The current system lends itself to great abuse'.

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• Will wind, water, fire, lend me a path to Moore? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I can't spare her,' answered John, 'but I must lend her to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Tell us all about it, cried Mr. Laurence, who had been longing to lend the lovers a hand, but knew that they would refuse his help. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Mr. Ablewhite, senior, refused to lend his son a farthing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You call THAT something to lend? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Brummell often dined with him, and therefore I take it for granted that Tom Raikes lent Brummell money. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Before the half-hour was out, I had got my dry clothes on, and had lent Sergeant Cuff such change of dress as he required. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• There was the room the Marshal had lent her, up-stairs, in which they could wait for her, if they pleased. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The President of France lent me his private box. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I was so bewildered that Miss Donny thought the cold had been too severe for me and lent me her smelling-bottle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The sovereign, like, any other owner of stock, may derive a revenue from it, either by employing it himself, or by lending it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The disgrace of lending herself to a vile deception is the only disgrace with which I can conscientiously charge Mrs. Rubelle. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was a method for systematizing and lending rational sanction to material accepted on authority. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This policy of lending money to foreign states is, so far as I know peculiar to the canton of Berne. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We had no story-telling that evening, and Traddles insisted on lending me his pillow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• That they never take a man prisoner lends strength to the belief that the fate of the girls they steal is worse than death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• All the best means are at once in action, and everybody present lends a hand, and a heart and soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I could see no marks to guide me, but the carpet was of a dun colour, which lends itself very well to examination. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It has been wrought into a softness that lends its susceptible nature to the influence of magnetism, and has been hardened into steel to form the sword and cutting tool. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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