borrow

借りる

返すつもりで、他の人の物を受け取って使う。

やさしい英語で： To take and use something belonging to someone else, intending to give it back.

• Can I borrow your pen?
• She borrowed a bike from her neighbour.
• We need to borrow money to repair the roof.

使い方： borrow something from someone (I borrowed a ladder from my uncle.)

反対語： lend

よく使う表現： borrow a book, borrow from someone, borrow some money, borrow a car

借りる、取り入れる

他の人の発想や表現、作風を自分の作品などに取り入れる。

やさしい英語で： To use someone else’s idea, phrase, or style in your own work.

• She borrowed an idea from the film.
• The designer borrows patterns from traditional art.
• May I borrow your phrase for my title?

使い方： borrow something from someone/something (The author borrowed the plot from an old folk tale.)

類義語： adopt, take

よく使う表現： borrow an idea, borrow a phrase, borrow from someone

借用する

別の言語の単語を取り入れ、自分の言語で使う。

やさしい英語で： To take a word from another language and use it in your own language.

• English borrowed this word from French.
• Languages often borrow words for new foods.
• The term was borrowed from Arabic centuries ago.

使い方： borrow something from a language (Japanese has borrowed many words from English.)

類義語： adopt

よく使う表現： borrow a word, borrow from French, borrow foreign words

曲がり、傾斜

特にゴルフで、転がる球の進路が地面の傾斜によって横に曲がること。

やさしい英語で： The sideways turn of a rolling ball’s path caused by sloping ground, especially in golf.

• This putt has some borrow.
• She allowed for the borrow when aiming.
• The slope creates a slight borrow to the left.

類義語： break

よく使う表現： allow for borrow, leftward borrow, read the borrow