sponger
英 [ˈspʌndʒə(r)] 美 [ˈspʌndʒɚ]

n.

依赖他人生活者，食客；

变形

复数：spongers

英英释义

sponger[ 'spʌndʒə ]

• n.
  • a workman employed to collect sponges
  • a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

    同义词：leechparasitesponge

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. A strong man is not willing to be a loafer or sponger.
   身强力壮的人谁也不愿吃闲饭。
2. He had no friends because he was a sponger.
   他没有朋友是因为他是个爱占别人便宜的家伙。

权威例句

BETTER FASTER SPONGER KINDER
Laparoscopic sponger-dissector forceps
Die Finsponger Sammlungen in Norrköping. (The Finspong Collections in Norrköping.)
Virtuoso Programmer's Guide - RDF Middleware ("Sponger") (Part 3)
The man who wanted to say something - The sponger and other characters from Nescio's manuscripts
Between the Market and the Sponger: Role Tension among the Officers of Bulgarian Army in the Process of Joining NATO
“‘The introspective Sponger’: Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Brecht’s poetry”. In: New Readings 12 (2012), pp. 19-34
Voyeur, sponger, flâneur, etc.: The figures of the author and strategies of displacement and disfigurement in Katherine Mansfield’...
Collection of food: A study of themes connected to the sponger (Tufayliyyun) in the Adab literature
‘I shouldn’t be living there because I am a sponger’: negotiating everyday geographies by people with learning disabilities