Significado de borrow en inglés
borrowborrow /ˈbɒrəʊ $ ˈbɑːroʊ, ˈbɔː-/ verb [intransitive, transitive] 
Ver todas las traducciones1to use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them laterusar algo que pertenece a otra persona y que se debe devolver después: 
Can I borrow your pen for a minute?¿Me prestas tu bolígrafo un momento?borrow something from somebody You are allowed to borrow six books from the library at a time.Se permite tomar prestados seis libros de la biblioteca a la vez. They borrowed heavily (=borrowed a lot of money) from the bank to start their new business.Pidieron préstamos cuantiosos (=pidieron mucho dinero prestado) al banco para iniciar su nuevo negocio. ► Do not confuse borrow and lend (=give someone permission to use something of yours): I borrowed his bike. | Can you lend me your pen?2to take or copy someone’s ideas, words etc and use them in your own work, language etctomar o copiar las ideas, las palabras, etc. de alguien y usarlas en el trabajo, la lengua, etc. propiosborrow something from somebody/something I borrowed my ideas from Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Waste Land’.Tomé mis ideas del famoso poema de Eliot 'The Waste Land'. To borrow a phrase (=use what someone else has said), if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.Por usar una frase ajena (=usar lo que alguien más ha dicho), si no soportas el calor, sal de la cocina.borrow from English has borrowed words from many languages.El inglés ha tomado prestadas palabras de muchos idiomas.3borrow trouble American English informalinformal to worry about something when it is not necessarypreocuparse por algo de manera innecesaria → be living on borrowed time at live1(17), → beg, borrow, or steal at beg(8)
Ver todas las traducciones1to use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them laterusar algo que pertenece a otra persona y que se debe devolver después: Can I borrow your pen for a minute?¿Me prestas tu bolígrafo un momento?borrow something from somebody You are allowed to borrow six books from the library at a time.Se permite tomar prestados seis libros de la biblioteca a la vez. They borrowed heavily (=borrowed a lot of money) from the bank to start their new business.Pidieron préstamos cuantiosos (=pidieron mucho dinero prestado) al banco para iniciar su nuevo negocio. ► Do not confuse borrow and lend (=give someone permission to use something of yours): I borrowed his bike. | Can you lend me your pen?2to take or copy someone’s ideas, words etc and use them in your own work, language etctomar o copiar las ideas, las palabras, etc. de alguien y usarlas en el trabajo, la lengua, etc. propiosborrow something from somebody/something I borrowed my ideas from Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Waste Land’.Tomé mis ideas del famoso poema de Eliot 'The Waste Land'. To borrow a phrase (=use what someone else has said), if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.Por usar una frase ajena (=usar lo que alguien más ha dicho), si no soportas el calor, sal de la cocina.borrow from English has borrowed words from many languages.El inglés ha tomado prestadas palabras de muchos idiomas.3borrow trouble American English informalinformal to worry about something when it is not necessarypreocuparse por algo de manera innecesaria → be living on borrowed time at live1(17), → beg, borrow, or steal at beg(8)