Rent

(noun.) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; 'he gave the envelope a vigorous rip'.

(noun.) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.

(verb.) let for money; 'We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad'.

(verb.) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.

录入:玛丽

• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Those other parts of the produce of land, however, which afterwards afford rent, do not afford it always. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There was an execution put into our house, for rent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You'd be poor yourself if you didn't get your rents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Avoid all openings or rents in the paper. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Ground-rents seem, in this respect, a more proper subject of peculiar taxation, than even the ordinary rent of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• First, in ancient times, almost all rents were paid in kind; in a certain quantity of corn, cattle, poultry, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Rents would go down. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• About three years afterward, it occurred to me that I had not heard at all from the man who had rented this machinery, so I thought I would go over to Newark and see how things were going. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A large shop was rented in Newark, equipped with $25,000 worth of machinery, and Edison was given full charge. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was not rented from the church, nor from the nobles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She would officially succeed to the chamber she had rented so long. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The man from whom Bell rented his workshop was Charles Williams, himself a manufacturer of electrical supplies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I had rented a small shop in Newark, on the top floor of a padlock factory, by the month. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A municipal lodging house for women is something of a substitute for the wretched rented room. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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