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sponge off

/spʌndʒ ɒf/

翻译: 动词短语,指自己不付出任何东西,靠别人的钱或慷慨过日子。

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词语关系

verb

/spʌndʒ ɒf/B2formal
  • zh动词短语,指自己不付出任何东西,靠别人的钱或慷慨过日子。

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of living at someone else's expense or taking advantage of someone's generosity without giving anything in return.

不可数 · 不及物 · 短语动词,不可分

  1. Live at someone else's expenseinformal

    To habitually take advantage of someone's generosity, especially for financial support or accommodation, without giving anything in return.

    zh白吃白喝

    • He's been sponging off his parents for years without getting a job.
    • She accused her brother of sponging off her while he looked for work.
    • They got tired of their friend sponging off them and asked him to move out.

    同义词bumcadgefreeloadleechmoochscrounge

词形
  • sponged off past participle
  • sponged off past simple
  • sponging off present participle
  • sponges off third person singular

基本动词sponge

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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