Mortgage

(noun.) a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan.

(verb.) put up as security or collateral.

班森编辑

• Faust advanced Gutenberg the sum of 2,020 florins, taking a mortgage on his printing materials as security. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The crown might immediately enjoy the revenue which this great price would redeem from mortgage. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The Northern people were tired of the war, they were tired of piling up a debt which would be a further mortgage upon their homes. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Sometimes it has made this assignment or mortgage for a short period of time only, a year, or a few years, for example; and sometimes for perpetuity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In 1710, those duties were again prolonged to the first of August 1720, and were called the sixth general mortgage or fund. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She brought me word they had no such sum to spare: I said they might mortgage their house in the loan office. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• These are mortgaged for the interest of the debt contracted, in order to carry it on. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• So, sir, you've been paying ten per cent for money which you've promised to pay off by mortgaging my land when I'm dead and gone, eh? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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