scrounge
verb /skraʊndʒ/
/skraʊndʒ/
[transitive, intransitive] (informal, disapproving)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they scrounge | /skraʊndʒ/ /skraʊndʒ/ |
| he / she / it scrounges | /ˈskraʊndʒɪz/ /ˈskraʊndʒɪz/ |
| past simple scrounged | /skraʊndʒd/ /skraʊndʒd/ |
| past participle scrounged | /skraʊndʒd/ /skraʊndʒd/ |
| -ing form scrounging | /ˈskraʊndʒɪŋ/ /ˈskraʊndʒɪŋ/ |
- to get something from somebody by asking them for it rather than by paying or working for it
白要；白拿 - scrounge something off somebody He's always scrounging free meals off us.
他老来我们家蹭饭吃。 - scrounge something from somebody Can I scrounge a cigarette from you?
我能向你讨支烟吗？ - scrounge something He dropped in yet again to scrounge a meal.
他又一次来找吃的。 - scrounge off/from somebody I don’t want to spend the rest of my life scrounging off other people.
我不想余生都在偷别人的东西。 - scrounge (for something) What is she scrounging for this time?
这次她又来要什么？ - You're always scrounging.
我会亲自彻查你的所有开销！
- I managed to scrounge some food off an old lady.
我设法从一位老太太那里偷了些食物。 - street children scrounging for food
街头儿童在乞讨食物 - Hello, I've come to scrounge some coffee.
你好，我来找些咖啡。
词源early 20th cent.: variant of dialect scrunge ‘steal’. - scrounge something off somebody He's always scrounging free meals off us.