1.She sponged the dirt off her shirt.
英：[ˈspʌndʒə(r)]
美：[ˈspʌndʒɚ]
spong·er
spuhn jr
复数:spongers
词根：sponge
adj.spongy 海绵状的；轻软的；多孔而有弹性的；有吸水性的
n.sponge 海绵；海绵状物
sponginess 海绵状；海绵质
spongioblast [基医] 成胶质细胞，海绵丝细胞
vi.sponge 采集海绵；过寄生生活；海绵般地吸收
vt.sponge 抹掉；用海绵擦拭；讨得
noun
an elastic porous mass of interlacing horny fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (phylum Porifera) and is able when wetted to absorb water
any of a phylum (Porifera) of aquatic chiefly marine simple invertebrate animals that have a double-walled body of loosely aggregated cells with a skeleton supported by spicules or spongin and are filter feeders that are sessile as adults
a pad (as of folded gauze) used in surgery and medicine (as to remove discharge)
one who lives on others
a soft mixture of yeast, liquid, and flour that is allowed to rise and then mixed with additional ingredients to create bread dough
a whipped dessert usually containing whites of eggs or gelatin
a metal (such as platinum) obtained in porous form usually by reduction without fusion
titanium sponge
the egg mass of a crab
an absorbent contraceptive device that is impregnated with spermicide and inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to cover the cervix
verb
transitive verb
to cleanse, wipe, or moisten with or as if with a sponge
to erase or destroy with or as if with a sponge—often used with out
to get by sponging on another
to absorb with or as if with or in the manner of a sponge
intransitive verb
to absorb, soak up, or imbibe like a sponge
to get something from or live on another by imposing on hospitality or good nature
sponged off of her sister
to dive or dredge for sponges
parasite, helminth
1670年代，“寄生虫”，源自于 sponge（海绵）的比喻用法。1828年开始作为火炮组的工作。
Noun Middle English, from Old English, from Latin spongia, from Greek
The first known use of sponge was before the 12th century
sponginnoun
a protein that is the main element making up the flexible fibers in sponge skeletons
sponge1 of 2noun
a springy mass of fibers and spicules that forms the skeleton of a group of aquatic animals and is able to absorb water freelyalso: a piece of this material or of a natural or synthetic product with similar properties used especially for cleaning
any of the phylum of primitive mostly marine animals that are the source of natural sponges, have a body of loosely connected cells with a skeleton supported by spicules or flexible fibers, and are filter feeders that live permanently attached to a solid surface as adults
a pad (as of folded gauze) used in surgery and medicine (as to soak up fluids or apply medicine)
one who lives on others : sponger
raised dough (as for yeast bread)
a whipped dessert usually containing egg whites
sponge2 of 2verb
to clean or wipe with or as if with a sponge
to absorb with or like a sponge
to get something or live at the expense of another
1.She sponged the dirt off her shirt.
2.The following persons are also classed as thieves: pickpockets, spongers, smugglers, forgers, counterfeiters, embezzlers, and those who misappropriate funds entrusted to them.
3.By the late sixties, versions of the anti-Communism rhetoric had found new targets: welfare spongers, Big Government, and, of course, hippies.
4.In some countries their acquaintance with them is confined to a few spongers, borrowers, and dependents; of a better class of Christian they know nothing.
5.It’s easy to imagine how the family would be portrayed in a newspaper report: a tribe of spongers and scammers made up of exploitative adults and vulnerable children.
6.The sponger ran his sponge into the muzzle of the cannon, cleaned out the barrel, and an Indian next to him, evidently trained for the purpose, handed him a fresh charge.
7.Then Don Juan got in a rage, called him a sponger, and sent him off with offensive epithets.
8.But you might have searched in vain through His Majesty's two regiments of Dragoons for a bigger rake, a more accomplished sponger, or a viler rogue than Cosme de Lespoisset.
9.Even the “sponger” felt the difficulty of parrying such a palpable notice to quit.
10.The , of a welfare crackdown on spongers and "bludgers" and of rivers of gold from the mining boom mark II that no longer flow with quite the same mighty thunder as of old.
11.One recent evening Lethen called his wife and her far-right friends “spongers.”
12.The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro.
13.Neill says of him, "John Pory was a graduate of Cambridge, a great traveller and good writer, but gained the reputation of being a chronic tipler and literary vagabond and sponger."
14.A TV critic for The Times picked up on this, writing in 1986 that Bread "reinforces the cultural stereotype of the inhabitants of that self-destructive city as a bunch of spongers abusing the welfare state".
15.Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, "which are really elegant in their moves," Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes.
16.The son of Yemeni immigrants, he grew up street smart and aimless in the seedy Tenderloin district, an inveterate loafer, sponger, bungler and charmer.
17.They then compared the results of these simulations with field data on the genetic relationship between the spongers, to estimate the role of mothers teaching their offspring in transmitting the skill.
18.When I reached Naples I had some trouble with this personage, who, with the peculiar faculty which belongs to the race of hangers-on and spongers, had somehow found me out, and came to borrow money.
19.There's always spongers who just soak up everything that they can get hold of, drug-wise.
20.finally told the sponge to move out of their house and to get a job
free rider
suck (up)
soak (up)
