柯林斯詞典mortgage /?m??ɡ?d?/ (mortgaging,mortgaged,mortgages) 1. N-COUNT A mortgage is a loan of money which you get from a bank or savings and loan association in order to buy a house. 房屋觝押貸款 ...an increase in mortgage rates. …房屋觝押貸款利率的上陞。2. V-T If you mortgage your house or land, you use it as a guarantee to a company in order to borrow money from them. 觝押 They had to mortgage their home to pay the bills. 他們不得不觝押他們的房子來還賬。 返回 mortgage劍橋詞典an agreement that allows you to borrow money from a bank or similar organization , especially in order to buy a house , or the amount of money itself （尤指購房的）按揭，觝押貸款 They took out a ￡40o,000 mortgage (= they borrowed ￡40o,000) to buy the house . 他們借了4萬英鎊的觝押貸款來買房子。 a monthly mortgage payment 每月償付的觝押貸款 例句 People who default on their mortgage repayments may have their home repossessed .Having a big mortgage is a real drain on your earnings .After falling behind with his mortgage repayments he now faces eviction from his home .She got behind with her mortgage and the house was repossessed .They were forced to give up their home because they couldn't pay the mortgage. 返回 mortgage