rent
n
1 [U, C] regular payment made for the use of land, premises, a telephone, machinery, etc; sum paid in this way 租金; 地租; 房租; (電話、 機器等的)租賃費
owe three weeks' rent/be three weeks behind with the rent 欠三個星期的租金
live in a house free of rent, ie without paying rent 住免繳租金的房子
Non-payment of rent can mean eviction. 不交租金就可能被趕出去.
pay a high/low rent for farming land 繳納耕地的高昂的[低廉的]地租
Rents are going up again. 租金又漲了.
[attrib 作定語]
a rent book, agreement, collector 租金登記簿、 租賃協定、 收租人.
2 (idm 習語) for rent (esp US) available to be rented 供租用的; 招租的. rent, v
1 [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (from sb) pay for the occupation or use of (land, premises, a telephone, machinery, etc) 租借或租用(土地、 房屋、 電話、 機器等)
rent a holiday cottage from an agency 向代理公司租用度假村舍
Do you own or rent your video? 你的錄像機是自己的呢, 還是租來的?
2 [Tn, Tn.pr, Tn.p, Dn.n]
~ sth (out) (to sb) allow sb to occupy or use (land, premises, a telephone, machinery, etc) in return for payment 將(土地、 房屋、 電話、 機器等)出租給某人
Mr Hill rents this land (out) to us at 500 a year. 希爾先生把這塊地租給我們, 租金每年500英鎊.
Will you rent me this television? 你把這臺電視機租給我行嗎? =>Usage at let2 用法見let2.
3 [I, Ipr] ~ (at/for sth) be let at a specified rent 以一定租金出租
The building rents at 3000 a year. 這座建筑物以每年 3000 英鎊的租金出租.
(US) an apartment renting for $900 a month 每月租金為 900 美元的一套公寓.
rent n torn place in cloth, etc; tear; split (布的)破裂處; 撕裂; 破裂
(fig 比喻) The sun shone through a rent in the clouds. 太陽透過云間的縫隙照射出來. rent: pt, pp of rend.