"Sponging"是一个英语单词,意为“居无定所,依附于他人生活并依赖他人支持的人”。以下是针对这个单词的五个方面的详细说明。
1. 词源分析
该词源于"sponge",指的是一种海绵状的物质。在英语中,"sponge"还有一个引申义,即指具有吸收和吸引能力的人或事物。因此,"sponging"就是指那些依赖别人生活、不自力更生的人,他们就像海绵一样吸收他人的资源。
2. 贬义含义
这个单词常常带有贬义,表示一种不负责任的生活方式。这种人不愿自食其力,依靠他人维持生活,他们无法独立生活,并且常常让别人为他们的生活买单。这种行为通常被认为是一种不道德且的行为。
3. 与懒惰有关
"Sponging"也与懒惰有关。这种人喜欢依赖别人生活,因为他们懒得为自己的生活努力。这个单词通常被用来描述那些不努力工作、总是依赖他人生活的人。
4. 相关的词汇
与"sponging"相关的词汇包括:"parasite"(寄生虫)、"leech"(水蛭),还有"mooch"(乞讨,讨饭)。这些单词都含有贬义。
5. 形式和例句
sponging (名词)
例句:He spent his days sponging off friends and family.
sponge off (动词短语)
例句:He sponges off his parents while he's out of work.
sponger (名词)
例句:He's nothing but a sponger, always asking for handouts.
sponging pad (名词)
例句:The homeless man used a sponging pad to sleep on.
sponging house (名词)
例句:That run-down house is just a sponging house for drifters.
sponging的中文翻译为“擦洗”,读音为/spʌnʤɪŋ/。
例句:
1. The nurse is sponging the patient's forehead with a damp cloth to reduce the fever.(护士正在用湿布擦拭病人的额头以降低发热。)
2. He has been sponging off his parents for years and never bothered to get a job.(他多年来一直依赖父母生活,并且从未努力找工作。)
3. The boxer was sponging off his face with a towel after a tough fight in the ring.(拳击手在擂台上经历了一场艰苦的比赛后,用毛巾擦拭着脸。)
sponging的意思是"海绵擦法",在日常中也代表"医"的意思,发音音标为['spʌndʒiŋ],在英语中以名词出现较多,在《英国翻译词典》中,共找到25个与sponging相关的例句。
Sponging的释义
1.海绵擦法
例句:He spent his life sponging off his relatives. (他靠在众亲属那儿蹭吃蹭喝过了一辈子。)
2.医
例句:Patterson has also observed the sponging dolphins. (帕特森也对捕食的海豚进行了研究。)
用法及短语
sponging一般作为名词使用,如在sponging on(依赖)、sponging agent(海绵化剂,发泡剂)、sponging drying(喷雾干燥)等常见短语中出现较多。
sponging on | 依赖 |
sponging agent | 海绵化剂,发泡剂 |
sponging drying | 喷雾干燥 |
sponging flour | 做发面用的面粉,〈俗〉酵头用面粉 |
sponging granulator | 喷雾造粒机 |
sponging gun | 喷枪,喷漆枪,喷雾器 |
sponging house | n. 负债人拘留所 |
sponging houses | (英)债务人拘留所(将债务人拘留于此24小时后,如不还债,即送入狱) |
sponging machine | 海绵花机器 |
例句
1. I don't like the sarcasm, and I don't want you around here next year sponging off of us, so fine. (翻译:你知道吗? 我不喜欢人家 拐弯抹角地骂我 我也不想明年你还留在这边当寄生虫)
2. Lynette: Not like you, spending the last 15 years sponging off a rich guy. (翻译:丽奈特:不像你,花费15年的青春傍上一个有钱的老公。)
3. If Mr Vole had been sponging off Mrs French, why cut off the source of supply? (翻译:如果说沃尔先生曾经从弗伦奇太太 身上榨取钱财,他又何必自断财路呢?)
4. With the sponging mouthpart, there’s yet another tube, this time ending in two spongy lobes that contain many finer tubes called pseudotracheae. (翻译:舔吸式口器,另外一种喙管, 不过这次末端是两个海绵似得垂体, 其中包含了许多很细的管子,叫做拟气管。)
5. It's a must so your father-in-law... won't think you're just a titled beatnik... sponging off your wife. (翻译:必须如此,这样你的岳父 就不会认为你只是个挂着贵族头衔的 垮掉的一代 只能依靠你妻子生活)
6. To prevent people from "sponging off" of their neighbors, he insisted, "we are going to have to have these kinds of things. " (翻译:为了防止人们太依赖他人,他坚称“我们一定要经历一些这类事件。”)
7. And at least I'm not sponging off my parents so I can afford to get laid on every continent. (翻译:至少我不会依赖我父母 这样我就可以随便躺在哪儿)
近义词&反义词
sponging作为名词的时候,其近义词以及反义词有0、spong/1、i/s、spongings等。
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