英语释义

1. 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

2. a piece of sponge (as for scrubbing)

3. a porous rubber or cellulose product used similarly to a sponge

4. 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

5. a pad (as of folded gauze) used in surgery and medicine (as to remove discharge)

6. one who lives on others

7. a soft mixture of yeast, liquid, and flour that is allowed to rise and then mixed with additional ingredients to create bread dough

8. a whipped dessert usually containing whites of eggs or gelatin

9. a metal (such as platinum) obtained in porous form usually by reduction without fusion
titanium sponge

10. the egg mass of a crab

11. an absorbent contraceptive device that is impregnated with spermicide and inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to cover the cervix

12. to cleanse, wipe, or moisten with or as if with a sponge

13. to erase or destroy with or as if with a sponge —often used with out

14. to get by sponging on another

15. to absorb with or as if with or in the manner of a sponge

16. to absorb, soak up, or imbibe like a sponge

17. to get something from or live on another by imposing on hospitality or good nature
sponged off of her sister

18. to dive or dredge for sponges

19. a piece of light natural or artificial material that becomes soft when it is wet, is able to take in and hold liquid, and is used for washing or cleaning

20. a type of sea animal from which natural sponges are made

21. someone who gets something from someone else without doing or paying anything in return

22. to clean or wipe (something) with a sponge

23. to put (paint) on a surface with a sponge

24. to get money, food, etc., from (someone) without doing or paying anything in return

25. a water animal that lives permanently attached to a solid surface (as the ocean bottom) and has a simple body of loosely connected cells with a skeleton supported by stiff fibers or hard particles

26. a piece of springy absorbent material that forms the skeleton of a sponge or is manufactured and that is used for cleaning

27. a pad of folded gauze used in surgery and medicine

28. to clean or wipe with a sponge

29. to get something or live at the expense of another
sponge off friends

30. 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 liquid

31. a small pad made of multiple folds of gauze or of cotton and gauze used to mop blood from a surgical incision, to carry inhalant medicaments to the nose, or to cover a superficial wound as a dressing

32. a porous dressing (as of fibrin or gelatin) applied to promote wound healing

33. a plastic prosthesis used in chest cavities following lung surgery

34. an absorbent contraceptive device impregnated with spermicide that is inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to cover the cervix and act as a barrier to sperm

35. to cleanse, wipe, or moisten with or as if with a sponge
sponge the patient's back

片语

sponge cake松糕

sponging house（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 stine用水站

gelatin sponge明胶海绵；海绵胶

sponge on依赖

sponging drying喷雾干燥

sponge rubber海绵状橡皮

sponging method喷雾法

bath sponge洗澡用海绵

titanium sponge[材] 海绵钛

sponge titanium海绵钛

Quiet sponging安静度日

sponging agent起泡剂

sponge gourd丝瓜

sponge iron[冶][材] 海绵铁

sponging gun喷枪

tepid sponging温水揩拭

英汉例句

• Don「t keep sponging from your father! His money won」t last for ever.

  不要老是向你父亲要钱！他的钱不是取之不尽的。

• Why else would I be sponging butt prints off my stool?

  不然为什么我要自找麻烦呢？

• A few small studies demonstrate that tepid sponging helps to reduce fever in children.

  一些小型研究显示使用微温海绵擦拭对于降低小孩的发烧有帮助。

• 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.

  尽管人们捕捉一只隐藏的底栖鱼只需9分钟，但始终比不上动作优雅的海豚。

• I「m to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

  我将变成个可怜的、爬行的乞丐，讨酒喝，可我本可能坐上四轮马车的！

• We recommend sponging and powdering your doll once a month.

  我们建议您的海绵和粉每月一次的洋娃娃。

• You can try to lower their temperature by sponging them gently with lukewarm water.

  您可以尝试降低其温度由海绵他们轻柔的温水。

• Don」t keep sponging from you parents!

  不要总是找你父母要钱！

• What a strange device, similar to a big microphone? Maybe for sponging planes?

  多么奇怪的设备，类似于一个大的麦克风？也许是用来擦拭飞机的？

• My father is a friendly, though misguided, man, but I felt that he was unfairly sponging off my mother before I found this out.

  父亲是一个好人，尽管他误入了歧途，在我发现这件事之前，我觉得他是过着一个依附于妈妈的寄生虫般的生活。

• Don「t keep sponging from you parents! Their money won」t last for ever.

  不要总是找你父母要钱！他们的钱总有个花光的时候。

• Mann「s previous research has shown that dolphin mothers pass the sponging method to their daughters and some of their sons, rare evidence of a cultural tradition in an animal other than humans.

  曼早先的研究表明海豚妈妈通常会把这种方法传给女儿以及个别儿子。这是除了人类以为，动物界中唯一存在的一种文化传承。

• You」ve got to go out and get a job! Stop sponging off your family!

  你该出去找份工作啦！不要一直在家当米虫！

• The sealed hopper is filled with noble gas and massive sponging agent.

  在密封仓内充有惰性气体和块状发泡剂。

• I don「t want you to think I」m sponging off you, I「ll pay back every cent you given me!

  我不想让你认为我小气，我会把你给我的每分钱都还给你！

• Don」t keep sponging from your father!

  不要老是向你父亲要钱！

• Patterson has also observed the sponging dolphins.

  帕特森也对捕食的海豚进行了研究。

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free rider搭便车者；免费享用公共货物者

freeloader不速之客；揩油的人

leech以水蛭吸血；依附并榨取

moocher乞丐；敲诈者；揩油者（指不断索取从不付出）

parasite寄生虫；食客

sponger(Sponger)人名；(德)施蓬格