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BORROW

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borrow verb tranzitiv

1. (of, from) a împrumuta (de la); a lua cu împrumut (de la).

2. (fig.) a împrumuta, a lua, a-şi însuşi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

No, you shall not go there to borrow an umbrella, or find out where he is, from his friends.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

You can borrow Mrs. Cole's.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I know not whether it may be worth observing, that the Houyhnhnms have no word in their language to express any thing that is evil, except what they borrow from the deformities or ill qualities of the Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Now, if he had borrowed my money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about money and never would look at a shilling of mine.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought it was better to borrow Captain Hopkins's knife and fork, than Captain Hopkins's comb.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She thought it was of no great value, but, being appropriate, she borrowed it, well knowing that Madame would never know it, nor care if she did.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Tearing off the blank side of one of her newly copied pages, Jo drew the table before her mother, well knowing that money for the long, sad journey must be borrowed, and feeling as if she could do anything to add a little to the sum for her father.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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