惯用表达

May I borrow your pen?

Sure. Which one?

The blue one, please.

You may keep it for the time being.(你尽管用)

标准口语

A: I need some books on Chinese.

B: There's many books here. What about these?

A: Great! They're the very books I want. May I borrow these two?

B: Sure. But you can only keep them for a week.

A: I see. Thank you.

活用对话

( Jack and Nancy are in their classroom.)

Jack: Did you go to the jazz concert last evening? (昨晚你去看爵士音乐会了吗)

Nancy: Yeah, I went there with my brother. He also likes jazz.

Jack: What did you think of the concert?

Nancy: Marvelous. Most of the musicians are Black Americans. I've taken some photos.

Jack: May I have a look?

Nancy: Sorry, I just sent them to be developed this morning.

Jack: How long will it take?

Nancy: About two days.

Jack: say, doyou have a Chinese-English dictionary? (嗯，你有英文字典吗？)

Nancy: Yes, what for?(干什么？)

Jack: I have an article to translate into Chinese. I'm not quite sure about some Chinese characters. Could you lend it to me for several days?

Nancy: How long would you like to keep it?

Jack: Till the end of the week.(得用到周末)

Nancy: Yes, that'd be all right.

Jack: Thank you very much.

词汇档案

jazz 爵士乐，爵士舞

concert 音乐会

marvelous （形容词）奇妙，不平凡，不简单，惊人，优秀

musician 音乐家

music 音乐

Black American 美国黑人

develope 显影，冲洗，开发，开展，研制

lend it to 借给

lend 借出，提供，借，贷

borrow 借入，借用

several days 几天

several 几个，几，数，些，个别的

return 归还

keep 保持，保存，保留，维持，保守，保管，收藏，收存，喂养

for the time being 当其时