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"
   

He's always scrounging free meals off us.

他老来我们家蹭饭吃。

What is she scrounging for this time?

这次她又来要什么？

a campaign against welfare scroungers

反对领福利金不做事的懒人的运动

Williams had to scrounge enough money to get his car out of the car park...

威廉斯不得不讨来足够的钱把车开出停车场。

The government did not give them money, forcing them to scrounge for food.

政府没有给他们钱，他们只能去要饭。

Don't scrounge my pen without my allowance!

我不允许,你不能擅自拿我的钢笔用!

If you're on the scrounge again, I've no money.

你要是再想借钱, 我可没有了.

He was sleeping under old houses and eating what little he could scrounge.

他睡在破旧屋檐下,吃着乞讨来的那一丁点东西.

The station director had to scrounge some records.

这样,电台台长就不得不四处寻找唱片来播出.

Can you scrounge up some new furniture?

你能弄到一些新家具 吗 ?

She has a job now, but still goes back to her parents'house to scrounge food.

她已经工作了, 可是还去父母家蹭饭吃.

Can I scrounge a cigarette off you?

我可以向你讨一支烟 吗 ?

She couldn't hold a job. We'd been forced to scrounge for food in dumpsters.

她无力工作, 我们有一度甚至在垃圾箱里找吃的.

I will carry no more. You may scrounge what I have dropped upon the ground.

维康妮亚:我带不了那么多物品. 你可以捡回我丢在地上的东西.

I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.

我设法弄来点材料搭个棚子.

She's always on the scrounge for cigarettes. Why doesn't she buy her own?

她总向人讨要香烟, 为什么自己不买 呢 ?

A handful of displaced residents were allowed in to scrounge through rubble for their belongings.

少数已迁移的居民被允许进入,到废墟中搜寻他们的财物.

Williams had to scrounge enough money to get his car out of the car park.

威廉斯不得不讨来足够的钱把车开出停车场。

The government did not give them money, forcing them to scrounge for food.

政府没有给他们钱，他们只能去要饭。

• scrounge%20a%20living">scrounge a living靠乞讨过日子...
• scrounge%20around">scrounge around搜寻; 筹集一定数目...

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

  出自：R. Westall