scrounge

英 [skraʊndʒ] 美 [skraʊndʒ]

• v. 四处搜寻；乞讨；索取

英英释义

Verb:

1. collect or look around for (food)

2. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling;

   "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. The station director had to scrounge some records.
   电台台长就不得不四处寻找唱片来播出。
2. She's always scrounging money off her brother.
   她总找哥哥借钱。
3. I try to scrounge for everything I need.
   别人喜欢买新东西。
4. I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.
   我设法弄来点材料搭个棚子。

经典引文

• I could go and scrounge off the parents for the rest of the vac.

  出自： R. Westall

词汇搭配

• scrounge a living 靠乞讨过日子...
• scrounge around 搜寻; 筹集一定数目...

近反义词

【近义词】

• cadge 乞讨
• forage 粮草
• beg 恳求
• borrow 借
• sponge 海绵
• solicit 恳求
• bum 流浪汉
• scavenge 到处觅食
• rummage 到处翻寻
• go through 经历
• search 搜寻
• hunt 狩猎
• shnorr 行乞
• schnorr 行乞