借用
jiè yòng
Pinyin
Definition
借用
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- to borrow sth for another use
- to borrow an idea for one's own use
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to use
- 2 to employ
- 3 to apply
- 4 to make use of
- 1 to use
- 2 to employ
- 3 to have to
- 4 to eat or drink
- 5 expense or outlay
- 6 usefulness
- 7 hence
- 8 therefore
- 1 need not
- 1 to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of)
Idioms (20)
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
以免借口
- 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
借刀杀人
- 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
- 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
- 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
借古讽今
- 1 to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
借尸还魂
- 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise