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| Processed by: | richwarm (2019-06-11 08:28:46 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 62248 - submitted by 'sl89' >> 外借 is often used to mean lend to the public, C-E dictionaries have "lend out" which doesn't necessarily have this meaning. (E.g. "I lent my tuxedo out to a friend who was going to a dance, and now I haven't anything to wear to the opera. I lent out my copy of the book. Sorry, I lent it out." -- examples from https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lend+out). But 外借 can also be used just to mean "to lend" without specifying to whom, in which case "lend out" is a good translation, so the definition I'm submitting may be too limiting. 【Wenlin】 v. lend out | Diànhuà bụ̀ wàijiè. 电话不外借。 This telephone is not for public use. 【Pleco】 VERB 1 lend out | 电话不外借。 | Private telephone. | 工具书恕不外借。 | Reference books cannot be taken out. 2 borrow from | 这些书都是外借的。 | These are borrowed books. 【规范】 1 动 向外借出 善本书不外借。 2 动 从别处借来 家里桌椅不够用, 可以外借一部分。 课本和其它学校备品都是免费的，而且可以外借。 Textbooks and other school material are either free or lent out. 说得简单一点，图书馆可能有数千册志怪小说供外借但却没能收藏多少册文学名著。 Simply put, the library may have thousands of mystery novels available for checkout but very few literary classics in their collections. I never lend books; you never get them back. 我的书决不外借, 因为总是有去无回. It is common practice for clubs to loan out players to sides in the lower divisions. 俱乐部把球员外借给下级联赛中的球队是常例。 ---------------------------------- Editor: I'm not convinced that "especially to the public" is justified. It wasn't hard for me to find examples where the borrower wasn't a member of the public. Among the examples below there are various cases of lending to institutions. 因緣際會，來自橘園美術館的八十一件國寶級畫作，由於橘園正值休館期，於是第一次將珍藏品大量外借。 The 81 masterpieces in the Chefs-d'oeuvre exhibition come to Taiwan during an interval when the Musee de l'Orangerie is closed for renovations, and indeed this is the first time that the Musee has agreed to make such a large loan of its paintings. 還有中文圖書館，可外借雜誌、錄影帶、書籍， They also have a Chinese-language library, where you can borrow magazines, video tapes and books, 然而由於考古標本多半為破損的碎片，少數完整的又被挖掘單位列為建管文物，不得隨意外借。 But most archeological artifacts are only shards, and the few items that have been found intact are jealously guarded by the institutions that dug them up; they are rarely lent out. 像北一女禮堂就經常被外借演話劇。 Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School was often used to perform stage plays. 在高雄縣的另外一端，另一項外借的創意正照亮鳳山人的夜空。 On the other side of Kaohsiung County, another imported idea is making the night skies over Fengshan shine. 不但成為合唱團的指揮，也常被「外借」到台大管弦樂團。 [He] not only became the conductor of the NTU choir, but was also "loaned out" to other NTU orchestras. |
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# 外借 外借 [wai4 jie4] /to lend (especially to the public, like a library, etc)/to borrow/ # # Editor: + 外借 外借 [wai4 jie4] /to lend (sth other than money)/to borrow/ |