mooch

英 [muːtʃ]

美 [muːtʃ]

v.  溜达; 闲逛; 白吃(或用等); 要别人白给(金钱、食物等)

现在分词：mooching　过去式：mooched　复数：mooches　第三人称单数：mooches　过去分词：mooched　

BNC.37117 / COCA.38087

短语动词

牛津词典

verb

• 溜达；闲逛
  to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much
  1. He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
     他就愿意在家里闲待着。
• 白吃（或用等）；要别人白给（金钱、食物等）
  to get money, food, etc. from sb else instead of paying for it yourself
  1. He's always mooching off his friends.
     他总是向朋友讨钱花。

英英释义

noun

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
  Synonym:moochercadgerscrounger

verb

• ask for and get free
  Synonym:bumcadgegrubsponge

双语例句

• And they mooch free meals in part by waggling their heads to beg for food like all the other ant grubs.
  这些寄住在红蚁巢穴的蝴蝶毛虫，有时学着蚂蚁幼虫摇动自己的脑袋乞求免费的午餐。
• At what point does a friend become a mooch? It's a matter of frequency.
  到什么样的程度才可以说一个朋友变成一个贪小便宜的人呢？这其实是个频繁度的问题。
• It is not means-tested, so old people who previously paid for their own drug coverage have an incentive to mooch off the taxpayer instead.
  这一政策实施之前并没有对老年人作生活状况的调查，因此预付了自己药品保证金的老年人就有了换而讹诈纳税人的诱因。
• I feel sick of those who mooch off others.
  我最讨厌跟别人要钱的人了。
• Old Flint's son does nothing but mooch about from morning till night.
  老弗林特的儿子整天闲逛；什么事也不干。
• I'll come by next week and mooch a meal off you.
  下星期我去你那儿，要你请我吃顿饭。
• He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
  他就愿意在家里闲待着。
• All you did was mooch off me when I was a big star!
  当年我红的时候你一直在沾我光！
• If you behave badly, you have nobody to depend on but your parents left to mooch off.
  如果你行为不正，除了揩你父母的油水外，你没有任何人可以依赖。
• Players control Darwin, the G-Force team leader, and housefly surveillance commando Mooch.
  玩家控制达尔文，G力组长，监察突击队央求家蝇。