Lent

[lent] or [lnt] 美式发音

(noun.) a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.

录入:谢里夫

• 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.
• He often thanked us for the books we lent him, and for the use of our instruments, but never spoke of his altered abode or change of circumstances. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He accused the Greeks of superstition: what name did he give to the faith he lent to the predictions of Evadne? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And if somebody lent you a pound or two, could you make any good use of it? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Thenlooking up, have I seen in the sky a head amidst circling stars, of which the midmost and the brightest lent a ray sympathetic and attent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The fact that it was retreating from the scene of battle lent colour to this hypothesis. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• OF STOCK LENT AT INTERESt. The stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The stock which is accumulated into a capital, may either be employed by the person to whom it belongs, or it may be lent to some other person. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I have since kept several Lents most strictly, leaving the common diet for that, and that for the common, abruptly, without the least inconvenience. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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