tenancy
(a) [U] use of land or buildings as a tenant(1) 租用; 租赁
during his tenancy of the farm 在他租用该农场期间.
(b) [C] period of this 租用或租赁期
hold a life tenancy of a house 终生租用某所房子.
Very strange. It was my first earthquake, you see, and I didn't know what was happening.
很奇怪。那是我第一次经历地震,你瞧,我当时还不知道发生了什么事。
Do you remember one afternoon ten years ago when I came to your house and borrowed a necklace of yours? Pierre, my husband, was working in a government office. We'd been invited to a ball at the palace so I needed to borrow some jewellery.