sponger

英式音标：[ˈspʌndʒə(r)]

美式音标：[ˈspʌndʒɚ]

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概况：

n. n. 使用海绵擦拭的人；海绵采集者；寄生虫；寄生人

n. (Sponger)人名；(德)施蓬格

词义：

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

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

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。

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

同义词：parasite,helminth

同根词：spongy,sponge

英语词源：

sponger (n.)

1670s, "parasite," agent noun from sponge (v.) in figurative sense. As a job on a cannon crew, by 1828.