lend, borrow, loan

名詞 loan:

1. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
2. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
   同義詞：loanword

動詞 loan:

1. give temporarily; let have for a limited time
   同義詞：lend

1. A loan of money would help me out of my predicament.
   只需一筆貸款就能幫我擺脫困境。
2. How much interest do they charge on loans?
   他們貸款收多少利息？
3. She offered me the loan of her car.
   她提出把汽車借給我用。
4. She loaned her collection of paintings to the gallery.
   她把自己收藏的畫借給了美術館。

loan

n.（名詞）

Something lent for temporary use.
借出物：借出以供臨時使用的東西
A sum of money lent at interest.
貸款：附利息借出的一筆錢
An act of lending; a grant for temporary use:
借：借的行動；允許暫時使用：
例句：
asked for the loan of a garden hose.
借用一個花園澆水管

A temporary transfer to a duty or place away from a regular job:
借調(diào)：暫時離開常規(guī)工作轉移到另一個職務或地方：
例句：
an efficiency expert on loan from the main office.
從總公司借調(diào)的一個效率專家

v.tr.（及物動詞）
loaned,loan.ing,loans 【用法疑難】
To lend.
借

來源：
Middle English lan, lon
中古英語 lan, lon
from Old Norse l3n * see leik w-
源自 古斯堪的納維亞語 l3n *參見 leik w-

【引伸】
loan.er
n.（名詞）
The verbloan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect.The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originatedfrom a provincial deference to British critics,who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism.Butloan is used only to describe physical transactions, as of money or goods.For figurative transactions,lend is the only possible form:
動詞loan 在美國英語中的用法已根深蒂固， 不能認為是不確切的。美國語法專家們之所以對這一形式經(jīng)常提出異議，是出于對英國批評家的狹隘尊崇，他們很久以來一直把這一用法列為典型美國腔。但loan 只用于描述物質(zhì)交易， 如錢或商品。至于象征性的交易，只可能用lend ：
例句：
Distance lends enchantment.
距離產(chǎn)生魅力。

例句：
The allusions lend the work a classical tone.
這個典故使作品帶古典味。

Lendis also required in fixed expressions such as lend-lease and moneylender.
Lend也用于固定詞組如 平等租借交換 和 放債者 中