(lenen)

prêter
voir aussi: se prêter

lend
see also: lend oneself

I. 
 
'tegen betaling van rente tijdelijk ter beschikking stellen' 

'mettre de l'argent à la disposition de quelqu'un à condition qu'il le rembourse avec des intérêts' 

'to give somebody a loan' 

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NP ____ 

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NP ____ NP 

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NP ____ (NP) (aan) NP 

 

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NP ____ 

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NP ____ NP 

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NP ____ (NP) à NP 

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NP ____ 

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NP ____ NP 

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NP ____ (NP) (to) NP 

II. 

'iets denken of zeggen van iemand' 

'dire ou penser quelque chose de quelqu'un' 
 
'think or say something about somebody' 

1. 
>>>> toeschrijven / nageven 
 

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NP ____ NP à NP 

1. 
>>>> attribute / credit 

III. 

'een bepaalde houding aannemen tegenover iemand' 

'montrer, témoigner une certaine attitude envers quelqu'un' 

'to adopt a certain attitude towards somebody' 

1. 
>>>> schenken
 

1. 
NP ____ NP à NP 

1. 
>>>> give 
 
 

IV. 
 
'iets tijdelijk en gratis door iemand laten gebruiken' 

'permettre à quelqu'un d'utiliser pendant une certaine période quelque chose qui est à soi' 

'to give something to somebody for them to use for a limited time' 

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NP ____ NP 

2. 
NP ____ NP (aan) NP 

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NP ____ NP 

2. 
NP ___ NP à NP 

1. 
NP ____ NP 

2. 
NP ____ NP (to) NP 

V.

'iemand hulp aanbieden'

'proposer son aide à quelqu'un'

'to offer support to somebody'

1.
>>>> verlenen

2.
>>>> verlenen

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NP ____ NP

2.
NP ____ NP à NP

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NP ____ NP

2.
NP ____ NP (to) NP

VI. 

'iets of iemand een bepaalde eigenschap bezorgen' 

'attribuer à quelqu'un ou à quelque chose une certaine caractéristique' 

'to add a quality to something or somebody' 

1. 
>>>> verlenen

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NP ____ NP à NP

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NP ____ NP ((to) NP)

VII. 

'iets betrouwbaarder of belangrijker maken' 

'rendre quelque chose plus crédible ou plus important' 

'to make something more reliable or significant' 

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>>>> geven

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>>>> conférer

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NP ____ NP to NP

VIII. 

'aanleiding geven tot iets' 

'fournir une occasion pour faire quelque chose, provoquer quelque chose' 

'to occasion or provoke something' 

1. 
>>>> aanleiding geven / uitlokken

2.
>>>> aanleiding geven / uitlokken

1. 
NP ____ à NP 

2. 
NP ____ à Pinf

1. 
>>>> give rise / provoke

2.
>>>> give rise / provoke

IX. 

'ervoor zorgen dat iemand beschikt over iets' 

'faire en sorte que quelqu'un puisse diposer de quelque chose' 

'to cause somebody to have something available to them' 

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>>>> bezorgen

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>>>> procurer

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NP ____ NP NP

X. 

'een onvervreembaar deel van zichzelf ten dienste, ter beschikking stellen van iemand' 

'proposer à quelqu'un l'usage d'une partie inaliénable de soi-même' 

'to allow others to make use of an inalienable part of oneself' 

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NP ____ NP aan NP

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NP ____ NP à NP

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NP ____ NP ((to) NP)

XI.

'een uitdrukking, naam, idee,... laten overnemen door iets of iemand' 

'se voir reprendre une expression, un nom, une idée par quelqu'un d'autre' 

'to be the source of a word, name, idea, … used by others'

1.
NP ____ NP aan NP

1.
NP ____ NP à NP

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NP ____ NP to NP

XII. 

IDIOMS

1. 
>>>> helpen / toesteken 
  

2. 
NP ____ zijn / het oor aan NP 

3. 
>>>> geven 

4. 
>>>> zweren 

5. 
>>>> zich blootstellen

1. 
NP ____ la main / main forte (à NP)   

2. 
NP ____ l'oreille à NP 
 

3. 
>>>> donner 

4. 
NP ____ serment 

5. 
NP ____ le flanc à NP 

1. 
NP ____ (NP) a (helping) hand 
/ a (helping) hand (to NP) 

2. 
NP ____ NP an ear / NP ____ an ear to NP  

3. 
NP _____ one's name to NP 

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>>>> swear 

5. 
>>>> expose oneself

voorbeelden - exemples - examples

NL 

I.1.
De grootste hobbel is de financiering. De bank wil wel lenen, maar vraagt borgstelling van subsidiënten.

I.2.   
Het Bose-verhaal is een klassiek succesverhaal. Omdat geen bank geld wilde lenen, werd na het bijeenschrapen van een beginkapitaal later alle winst geherinvesteerd. 
De Rotterdamse transportgigant Nedlloyd leende anderhalf jaar na de kiellegging van De Batavia ongeveer twee miljoen gulden, zodat de toekomst van het bouwproject vrijwel verzekerd was. 

I.3.  
De Wereldbank is in staat aan arme landen te lenen tegen een lagere rente dan Belgie en Italie op de kapitaalmarkt moeten betalen.  
De banken zijn niet bereid om grote bedragen voor langere tijd aan Kazachstaanse bedrijven te lenen. 
De boycot van betalingen voor diensten en woningen, een gevolg van de ANC-strategie uit de anti-apartheidsstrijd om de townships ,,onregeerbaar'' te maken, had de banken huiverig gemaakt om geld te lenen aan zwarten met lage inkomens. 
De stille kracht achter het AOV, Frits Philips, die de partij ettelijke tienduizenden guldens leende, zei volgens Batenburg: ,,Het is niet prettig, maar dit royement moest gebeuren.'' 
Op het eerste gezicht is het verwonderlijk dat beleggers toch bereid zijn het rijk genoeg geld te lenen om het financieringstekort te dekken. 
Vandaag staan internationaal opererende bankinstellingen, onder andere ABN Amro, te springen om het sultanaat 7 miljard dollar te lenen voor zijn nieuwe project vloeibaar aardgas naar Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan en mogelijk ook Thailand. 
ABN Amro leent Endemol geld voor tv-station.  

FR 

I.1.
Pour pouvoir prêter, le Comptoir emprunte sur les marchés, chaque année, plusieurs dizaines de milliards de francs. 

I.2.  
La Banque européenne d'investissement, qui n'est pas membre du syndicat bancaire, pourrait prêter, elle aussi, de l'argent.   

I.3.  
Les banques hésitent à prêter aux entreprises par crainte de ne pas pouvoir exercer leurs garanties.  
Faute d'outil d'analyse, les responsabilités du surendettement ont donc rapidement été attribuées à deux acteurs : les démarcheurs et autres vendeurs de rêve à crédit, et les banques accusées de prêter à tout-va à des irresponsables. 
Le PC soviétique avait prêté cet argent à son correspondant polonais pour le soutenir à la veille du dernier congrès du POUP en janvier 1990.  
En prêtant de l'argent à ceux qui veulent acheter ou transformer un bistrot, une brasserie, voire un hôtel-restaurant, les fournisseurs s'attirent reconnaissance... et fidélité dans les achats. 

EN 

I.1. 
“Small firms are at a critical crossroads, with cashflow drying up and less willingness by the banks to lend.” 
At the same time that there is an increase in the demand for borrowing, there is a reduction in the supply of those wishing to lend. 

I.2.  
In the 1970s, after a sharp rise in the price of oil, banks were eager to lend the enormous sums of money invested with them by oil-producing countries.  
We face real threats internationally from pollution, over-population, from famine, from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year. 
You need at least 22 people to start a union, around 50 to make it worthwhile and, by law, an overall maximum of 5,000. It usually costs up to £5 to join, plus the price of a share, say £1. You are also expected to start saving regularly, and can typically borrow three to four times what you've accumulated. Big, old-established unions may lend up to £5,000 or even more (the legal maximum is £10,000), but smaller unions may have a limit of a few hundred, and a new member may only get £100.
The building society was, of course, an innocent third party. It had lent money on mortgage for the purpose of an apparently genuine sale. 
In Re New Mashonaland Exploration Company Vaughan Williams J commented, obiter, that where a company has resolved to lend money on security, to have parted with the money before the security had been created would have been negligent.

I.3.  
Building societies or banks may be willing to lend you money for extra security, and to add it to your mortgage. Good security can increase the value of your property. 
I cannot borrow that amount of money because I'm already overdrawn and I don't know anybody who would lend me any. 
“All sorts of people have helped: The Rural Development Commission has lent us £10,000 to top up what we raised; all the retired, trainee and working accountants, lawyers, journalists and businessmen in the village have put in hours of voluntary work, and our grocery wholesaler Pharaoh Quirke has given us a new fascia board.” 
“Hey, Rob, do you wanna lend me fifty P?” “I lent Gavin my money.” 
In the guilds there are always small groups or societies prepared to lend money at high interest rates to the nobles or to other merchants. 
“Pat, have you got eleven P?” “I don't Stephen and if I did I definitely would lend it to you.” 
Imelda Marcos, widow of the former President Ferdinand Marcos who was overthrown in 1986, said on Sept. 3 that she would return to face trial in the Philippines if the government agreed that her husband's remains could eventually be reburied in his homeland. The government on Sept. 18 filed corruption charges against Marcos, accusing her of coercing Central Bank officials into lending US$25,000,000 to a company in which her family had shares. 
Amongst the criticisms of UK financial institutions are the allegations that UK banks place too great an emphasis on lending to consumers, whereas overseas banks are primarily concerned with long-term industrial finance. 
In Colombia industries have been kept in the public sector just to get World Bank finance. Some insiders argue that the Bank is ill-adapted to encourage private enterprise, because its articles of agreement forbid it to lend to the private sector. 
Most workers have no idea of what is done with “their” savings, even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management. They do not know where the money is “invested”, whether in British enterprises or overseas, in speculation on property or “art treasures”, or in lending to the government to finance unemployment.

FR 

II.1. 
Séducteur, il s'entoure d'une cour de flatteurs et de belles, délaissant sa famille. On lui prête des fréquentations interlopes.  
On prêtait à Lombard des revenus faramineux et une multitude d'avantages en nature. 

FR 

III.1. 
S'il réprouve le recours à la violence, il considère qu'" il faut prêter attention au cri de désespoir des insurgés.  
Personne n'a vraiment prêté attention au choix de l'invité. 
La suite dépendra des rapports de forces au sein du nouveau Parlement, mais aussi de la disposition des Russes à prêter encore quelque crédit à leurs dirigeants, en évitant d'aller immédiatement, comme à l'accoutumée, convertir leurs roubles en billets verts. 

NL 

IV.1. 
En als ik de Torre de Belém zie, moet ik onmiddellijk denken aan de suppoost, die voor honderd escudo's de sleutel naar het terras van het monument leende. 
De kunstwerken komen uit openbare en particuliere verzamelingen van over de hele wereld. De Hermitage in Sint Petersburg leende er drie, waaronder het fameuze genrestuk Het Boerenerf - bijgenaamd 'De Pissende Koe' - het veertiendelige allegorische 'stripverhaal' Het Leven  van de jager, en de gigantische Wolfshond.  
Ze werden in hun tegenoffensief bijgestaan door de Kroatische Serviërs, die vanaf hun gebiedstellingen in en rond Biha met artillerie beschoten, hun vliegveld Udbina tot drie keer toe lenen voor bombardementsvluchten van de luchtmacht van de Bosnische Serviërs op Biha en uiteindelijk zelf de enclave met manschappen, artillerie en tanks binnentrokken. 

IV.2. 
De onderneming koopt grondstoffen en leent die aan fabrieken die ze terugbetalen in eindprodukten.  
'Beste Asterix, Obelix en Panoramix, Wij komen uit een andere tijd en de brandstof van onze tijdmachine is op. We dachten dat jullie toverdrank misschien te gebruiken was voor dat doel. Ik hoop dat jullie ons wat willen lenen.' Panoramix geeft ze wat toverdrank en wat water om de kracht te verminderen.  
,,Leen me uw pen'', zegt de douanier, voordat hij aangeeft dat al het geld ter verificatie op het toonbankje moet worden uitgeteld. 

FR 

IV.1. 
Les campagnes d'information répétées semblent avoir porté quelques fruits : en 1990, 24 % des utilisateurs de drogue reconnaissaient avoir emprunté une seringue usagée, et 28 % en avoir prêté une déjà utilisée.  
En se croisant, les motards s'adressent des signes variés et chaleureux, le contraire des bras d'honneur des encagés de la bagnole. Quand ils voient un collègue en difficulté, ils s'arrêtent, prêtent leurs outils, bricolent, blaguent. 
La ville de Francfort, si fière d'avoir obtenu d'abriter le siège de la future Banque centrale européenne, prête, mardi 11 janvier, son bâtiment historique du Römer pour l'inauguration de l'embryon de cette banque, l'Institut monétaire européen [...].  

IV.2. 
Madeleine et son mari, qui prêtent gracieusement tout l'étage supérieur de leur maison à la permanence de Philippe Vasseur, avaient préparé le café.  
On se souviendra aussi que notre pays, qui s'honora en prêtant son sol à la Fédération pour la démocratie en Chine l'année même où il célébrait le bicentenaire de sa Déclaration des droits de l'homme, joua un rôle déterminant dans l'adoption de sanctions au Conseil européen de Madrid. 
Sans lever le mystère sur l'alchimie, elle fait le tri, explique qu'il y a une chanson de Piaf qu'elle n'a jamais pu chanter, mais qu'elle s'est battue, en revanche, pour parvenir à en interpréter une de Brel qu'elle sentait faite pour elle. Elle rend hommage en quelques formules à tous ceux qui lui ont prêté leur talent : " Je suis comme la mer descendante. J'attends qu'ils me donnent de quoi remonter." 

EN 

IV.1. 
“Why do you think Walter’s reputation didn't last?” Gerald Seymour-Strachey leaned forward excitedly. “Ah, but it did! In little pockets — that's nothing unusual, in the literary world. Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years? People had been reading him, recommending the books to each other, lending them.” 
For all of these photographs quite a large number of accessories or props will be needed to create the desired effect. Photo-graphers who specialise in food or in room set photography will probably have a good selection of props. In addition quite a few manufacturers of household goods are willing to lend their products for use in photographs for non-competing items in return for suitable credits. 
In 1838 Messrs C., H., and G. Enderby, of London, managing owners for a joint venture, sent the schooner Eliza Scott and the cutter Sabrina on a commercial voyage of discovery. Some scientific instruments were lent by the hydrographer John Washington. 
His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard, on which sit his word-processor and printer. A small chair and bookcase completes the picture. The books — almost as much a symbol of Jewishness as the Mogen David itself — are byand large well thumbed, though fewer than one would expect. They offer a microcosm of his mental world in their range: Zen Buddhism, poetry, English and French literature, mysticism and spirituality (not least that of Simone Weil), music, a few general books. He speaks of them with enthusiasm, and he lends them with abandon. 

IV.2. 
Fernande Olivier, Picasso's mistress, described him as stingy, but he was a good friend to Modigliani, encouraged him to paint and lent him colours, brushes and canvas. 
I am grateful to my colleagues on the project, Alison Kelly, Barbara Smail and John Catton. However, they do not necessarily share the views expressed in this chapter. My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor. 
Elaine adjusted a shoe-string strap on her shoulder and surveyed the long, loosely draped black jersey-dress in the mirror. “Thanks for lending me this, Christina. Loads of people have complimented me, including one very important person.” 
Maupassant's “La Parure” tells the story of a woman who is bitterly dissatisfied with her lower middle-class, unexciting husband. She dreams of being adored, the centre of attention. When she and her husband have the chance to attend a ball, a rather grand function, she borrows an exquisite necklace from an acquaintance. They go to the ball, she is indeed admired by everyone there but when they get home she realises she has lost the necklace. She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it. At the end of this time, worn-down and aged far beyond her years, she meets the woman who lent her the necklace. 
The Proprietor has the right to make copies of audio and video components of the Work for use within its institution for its own teaching programmes but such copies will neither be sold nor lent to third parties. 
Further to Mrs Armstrong's letter of 8 September 1992, in which she indicated that your Library would be willing to lend its Slezer drawings to our Slezer exhibition this summer, I am now writing to finalise arrangements. 
Before the whites came, no one in Australia was landless, since everyone inherited, as his or her private property, a stretch of the Ancestor's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed. A man's verses were his title deeds to territory. He could lend them to others. He could borrow other verses in return. 
My main guitar is a Gibson 330 semi. The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months, but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig! 

FR

V.1.
Article 5 o : tout yacht doit prêter assistance dans la mesure du possible à tout bateau et à toute personne en péril lorsqu' il est en position de le faire. (Collectif in Frantext)

V.2.
Il sera arrêté, torturé, emprisonné, refusant de prêter son concours au peuple de flics, de mouchards, de tortionnaires et d'esprits diaboliques de toutes sortes qui l'ont à l'oeil.
Nous comprenons parfaitement les difficultés que vous rencontrez et il est actuellement impossible aux forces françaises libres de vous prêter une aide efficace. (de Gaulle in Frantext)
De son côté, le gouvernement de SM britannique reconnaît qu' il appartient à la France, notamment comme puissance limitrophe du Maroc sur une vaste étendue, de veiller à la tranquillité de ce pays, et de lui prêter son assistance pour toutes les réformes administratives, économiques, financières et militaires dont il a besoin. (Collectif in Frantex)

EN

V.1.
It would, of course, be far fetched to compare the plight of the French fighting the Japanese in Vietnam with that of the Polish Home Army who had been destroyed fighting the Germans in Warsaw in 1944 although, in one respect at least, the failure of the proximate military power to lend assistance meant that others, who were more responsive to the plight of the Poles and the French, did what they could from a distance to help. 
In January 1795 Hoyle wrote to the Goldsmiths to say that the windows in the Schoolhouse needed repairing, and that the cost was estimated to be £16. He mentioned also that "The inhabitants of the town have been so good as to rebuild me the Court wall and make some improvements in the yard, and they are very desirous for the Company to lend their aid".
“Since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support.” 
They are computer programs pumped full of plain old knowledge and heuristics lore from experts who lend their wisdom. 

V.2.
Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000, 20% of our food will be organic.
I had a chance last week to read your excellent discussion paper on Marine Protected Areas. I thought I should let you know how valuable I think the analysis is to the conservation movement, and how helpful it is to be able to lend weight to a fresh strategy, such as that proposed in the paper. 
A revamped University Funding Council, directed by a former Cambridge don, Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, threatened to impose much more severe financial disciplines on universities that were already struggling; on the other hand, the 1985 Jarratt Report resulted in complex new structures of planning, resource management, and managerial accountability. Partly by way of compensation, the government lent its favour increasingly to the allegedly more cost-effective polytechnics (now made independent of local authorities), and to more practically or vocationally orientated institutions such as business schools. 
Daisy, ever hopeful and optimistic, still made heroic efforts to win Perdita round. She couldn't afford a car yet, but on the day of the final trials for the Pony Club Championships, which were held at Rutshire Polo Ground, she took two buses and walked a mile in pouring rain to lend Perdita support. 
Moran made no move towards her, promised nothing, gave no hint of any reciprocation of interest, lent her no support. 
If each party has his own private end to gain, but yet the joint aim is no more than a desire for prosperity or peace in industry, there is no tort. On the other hand, if one of the parties is actuated merely by hatred or vindictive spite he may be liable and if the others are aware of this and lend him their assistance they too may thereby become participants in the wrong. 
Hubert le Hongre, a knight of the Mâconnais, lent his lord the castellan of Uxelles aid and counsel, witnessed his charters, testified for him in lawsuits, acted as hostage for his family, and entered Cluny's clientage when his lord became a monk. 

FR 

VI.1. 
Le journaliste excelle à relever les ambiguïtés, les contradictions, les rapports de forces, le sens du compromis tantôt raisonnable, tantôt médiocre ou absurde qui prêtent à la Belgique son faciès incomparable.Comment ne pas fondre devant la scène, alors que l'on nous prête obligeamment les yeux paternels ?  

EN 

VI.1. 
Pregnancy had lent a translucent quality to her looks, but the smiles she frequently aimed at Guy seemed to contain an extra radiance. 
In 1969 a new unit was formally set up in Edinburgh to study the geology of the continental shelf around Scotland. This activity had been initiated by Eden some years previously but the discovery of hydrocarbons under the North Sea lent impetus to the work. 
Luna 2 are masters of understated melodies, rippled with smooth guitar lines that lend a spooky groove to the jaunty introspection of Wareham's songwriting. 
In the Artemis and Actaeon picture, Actaeon leans sharply across the field from the right bottom corner, struggling against three hounds, while the goddess stands at the left, quiet, head alittle bent, lending a curious still beauty to the cruel scene. 
Judging by the public discourse, the government's negotiating strategy, and the army and settlers' day-to-day behaviour in the territories, the Intifada has made many “extremists” more extreme than ever. There is the growing allure of apocalyptic solutions. Harkabi described the idea of a “transfer” — the mass expulsion of Palestinians — as just the kind of project that is calculated to lend the struggle its absolute, “existential” character. 
Membership, it was said, never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten.This, and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body, lent it much mystique for a time, ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone. 
Her skin was flawless, and always cool, always pale; her body was long, like her hair, like her fingers, like her laughter; and her eyes, oh, her eyes, had every season of leaf in them: the twin greens of spring and high summer, the golds of autumn, and, in her rages, black midwinter rot. He was, by contrast, a plain Man; well scrubbed, but plain. He'd made his fortune selling baths, bidets and toilets, which lent him little by way of mystique. 
When everything is in readiness, the Christmas decorations lend a final festive touch. 
To lend naive party cheer, the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room. 

EN 

VII.1. 
If urban values lend support to the industrial economy upon which we all depend today — and this is further characterised by competition, unemployment, social welfare, and a sharp distinction between work and leisure — then it is possible to see rural values supporting an almost diametrically-opposed set of conditions: co-operation, multiple occupations, kin and neighbourhood help and no separation of work and leisure. 
First of all, I will sketch an account of observation that I think it is fair to say is a commonly held one in modern times, and which lends plausibility to the naive inductivist position. 
Macmillan’s graphic denunciation of neglect in the West Indies, Warning from the West Indies (1936), appeared months before serious West Indian riots, lending force to his advocacy of reconstruction by colonial development. 
Lapsley and Prowle (1978) carried out comprehensive surveys that lent considerable weight to the reforms suggested in the working group's report. 
That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour, and homosexuality as a modern identity. 

FR 

VIII.1. 
Un centenaire qui prête à discussion puisque, si le Dernier Problème, qui met en scène la disparition de Sherlock Holmes, est publié dans The Strand Magazine en décembre 1893, la chronologie situe la naissance de Holmes en 1854 et sa disparition [...] dans les chutes de Reichenbach en 1891 !  
DIRA-T-ON que Vautrin écrit avec son coeur ? Ce genre de lieu commun prête aux pires confusions anatomiques. 

VIII.2. 
Certaines scènes sado-maso prêtent même à rire.  
Ce Disneyland religieux, situé près de Castellane, dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, prêterait plutôt à sourire. 

EN 

IX.1. 
More distant victims burst into flames. Others flared like candles as they tried to flee. This distraction allowed the Wolverines to close in on the flanged skirts of the arena. An access ramp corkscrewed down. At the bottom, a trio of guards were on duty, armed with flamers. The Wolverines' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning. 
I was comforted when Matata showed me a Boer war rifle wrapped in rags in the bottom of the canoe. I doubt whether it could have found its target but the very shape of it in my hands was reassuring. A very small pocket penknife (with hoof-pick and corkscrew) hadn't been lending me much courage. 

NL 

X.1. 
Derek Jacobi is niet de enige ster die zijn stem heeft geleend aan de wereldliteratuur: zo leest regisseur-acteur Gary Sinise Steinbecks Of Mice and Men voor, maakt de Engelse televisieactrice Harriet Walter korte metten (drie uur) met Middlemarch van George Eliot, en is er een Madame Bovary-vertaling die door Claire Bloom gelezen wordt. 
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti leent voortaan zijn bekende naam ook aan een parfum voor vrouwen. (INL 38) 

FR 

X.1. 
Ses personnages appartiennent plus volontiers aux années 50, comme Mado, la bonne, dans la station-service tenue par ses parents, qui prêtait ses charmes aux routiers de passage.  
Associé depuis 1970 au groupe Oettinger de Bâle, il a aussi diversifié ses activités en prêtant son nom à des parfums, des cognacs, du cuir et d'autres produits de luxe. 

X.1.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Bernard Weatherill, has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead.
How Dustin would have managed to submit himself to a real auteur like Bergman must remain a matter for conjecture. He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film, an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould. He did, however, lend his now recognisable voice to an animated ABC feature called The Point, shown on 2 February 1971.
Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms. The underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau was among those who lent his name to the protest. 
The actresses, of course, were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them, and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture, ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion.

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XI.1.
De Nederlanders in Nieuw-Amsterdam (het latere New York) leenden aan het Amerikaans-Engels woorden als boss (baas), cookie (koekje), snoop (van snoepen) en waffle (wafel).

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Parpalhon "papillon", représente le latin papilionem. La forme avec insertion d'un -r- occupe un large territoire qui relie le nord de l'Italie, la France au sud de la Loire et le catalan. Le mot a été prêté au fr. parpaillaud avec le sens "huguenot, calvinistes"par allusion à une espèce de chemise dont les protestants firent usage en Gascogne, dans une sortie, pendant le siège de Nérac. (http://etymologie-occitane.chez-alice.fr/P.html)

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This very early phase of the Bronze Age was also marked by the appearance of a distinctive ceramic form called the Beaker, which also lends its name to this period of transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.

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XII.2.   
De Cubaanse ontwikkelingen hadden er beter voorgestaan als hij het oor vaker geleend had aan zijn burgerlijk-democratische bondgenoten en de Cubaanse communisten.  

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Le rôle d'un gouvernement républicain, c'est de prêter la main, d'encourager. 
Est-ce un hasard si l'on murmure que le même Yehoshua Kenaz aurait justement prêté la main à la traduction du Voyage ?  
L'Isard mouille fréquemment le long des côtes de pays alliés de la France [...], auxquels il a prêté main forte pour l'entraînement de gardes présidentielles locales.  
Cette innovation s'inscrit dans le cadre de la coopération plus étroite entre la Cour des comptes et l'Assemblée nationale, voulue par les présidents des deux institutions. Celle-ci se traduira notamment, dès cette année, par le réexamen des services votés de cinq budgets, mené par cinq députés auxquels la Cour des comptes prêtera main forte [...]. 

XII.2.  
La force de protection des Nations unies leur prête une oreille attentive. 

XII.4. 
Le président Habyarimana, qui avait prêté serment mercredi matin, a demandé à la communauté internationale, et plus particulièrement aux observateurs de l'accord d'Arusha [...], de " tout mettre en oeuvre pour que les institutions de transition puissent fonctionner ".  
On le vit bien lors de l'intronisation d'Albert II, en août 1993. Indifférent aux contraintes de l'horaire, le nouveau roi, après avoir prêté serment, n'en finissait pas de s'entretenir en tête-à-tête avec chacun des vieillards décorés, sous le regard des télévisions mais sans les micros. 

XII.5. 
MM. Kissinger et Lugar disent que les Etats-Unis prêtent le flanc à ceux qui les accusent de vouloir un " Yalta II " avec Moscou, même si l'accusation est pour le moins rapide.  
De son côté, par son mutisme, l'administration du lycée prête le flanc aux rumeurs. 

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SANTA CLAUS probably got more letters than the Queen or Margaret Thatcher this year. But then he's cuddlier. The Post Office, who handle his mail, say there were 600,000 letters for the plump, red-cheeked old fellow. Naturally he couldn't answer them all himself, so Post Office staff lent a hand and every kid who wrote to him got a reply, postmarked Reindeerland or Santaland. 
FORMER Irish League goalkeeper, turned BBC commentator, Bobby Carlisle, is lending a helping hand in one of the most remarkable runs in Junior Cup history. The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star, a team who have never won a trophy and, until this year, never got past the second round of junior soccer's top competition. 
A visiting minister performed the burial service, a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman. 
Now, as he stumbled towards the window of his room, he recognized that resentment lay behind his disbelief: resentment that his friendship with Dysart might have an origin he had never dreamed of; that, in lending him a helping hand whenever he could, Dysart had merely been slumming. 
HAVING shepherded the Tories through the general election, Charles and Maurice Saatchi are lending a hand to Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Soviet Foreign Minister now chairing the State Council of Georgia.

XII.2.
The staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker, whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections. This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships, giving advice about contraceptive clinics, or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems.
In a US property, a guest let off steam to the bartender because his room was not ready and it was already late. The bartender lent the customary ear, then placated the guest by offering a complimentary drink and snack, using the empowerment code to authorise a small expenditure to retain the guest's goodwill.
Just the ticket! A Merseyrail conductor lends a trained ear to trumpet player Des Worthington at Hooton Station yesterday. Pictures: EDDIE BARFORD
Up till this time Wendy and I had endured the discomforts of Althorp Street with cheerful good humour; but when we discovered layers of stale milk on the saucepans, we felt we had had enough. We must look for another billet. We knew that we should have to find this for ourselves, as the Billeting Office would not be prepared to move us again, nor lend a very sympathetic ear to our complaints.

XII.3.  
The Speaker of the House of Commons, Bernard Weatherill, has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead. 
This very early phase of the Bronze Age was also marked by the appearance of a distinctive ceramic form called the Beaker, which also lends its name to this period of transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. 
Hermes’ musical talent ensured he remained a favourite with the gods, and he was credited with inventing the lyre from a tortoise shell. His mercurial personality was likened to quicksilver, to which was lent his name, according to Hoole's Ariosto:  So, when we see the liquid metal fall Which chemists by the name of Hermes call.