/ləʊn ||; lon/noun1 [C] money, etc that sb/sth lends you 借出物;借款;贷款: to take out a bank loan 获得一笔银行贷款to pay off a loan 清还一笔贷款
2 [U] the act of lending sth or the state of being lent 借出:
The books are on loan from the library. 这些书是从图书馆借来的。
loan verb [T] (
formal 正式)
loan sth (to sb) In American English
loan is less formal and more common. 在美国英语里,
loan多用于非正式场合,亦较常用。