GRE
v. 讨要，乞讨（cadge 的現在分詞）
He's always cadging meals from his friends.
他總吃朋友的便宜飯。
They're just a bunch of leeches cadging off others!
他們隻不過是一幫伸手向人要這要那的寄生蟲！
Prideful and lost, he became a passing phenomenon, like so many stars, reduced to cadging charitable fees at parties thrown by mobsters and by sympathetic fellow Hungarians.
高傲到迷失，他昙花一現，像其他明星一樣，被迫變成到舞會上乞讨罪犯和匈牙利同胞的同情而施舍的幾個子兒。
At 60, shockingly gaunt from throat cancer and with his voice reduced to a rasp, he found himself back in Belfast, cadging money from friends for a drink and a copy of the Racing Post.
六十歲的時候，因為咽喉癌他變得極度憔悴瘦削，說話隻能絲絲細語，喝杯酒、買份《賽事郵報》都要跟朋友伸手，他發覺自己退回到了貝爾法斯特的荒涼時光。
And so, homeless as well as unemployed, the group expanded into a formal organization, charging $15 in annual dues and cadging space for meetings from large restaurants and assisted-living centers.
後來，這個以無業人員、流浪者為主的群體，漸漸形成一個正式的組織，每年定期繳納15元會費，用作在餐館、福利院聚會時的場地租金。
單詞cadging 是動詞cadge 的現在分詞形式，以下是詳細解釋：
He is always cadging cigarettes from his friends.
（他總是向朋友讨煙抽。）
I cadged a lift from a truck driver.
（我蹭了卡車司機的順風車。）
Cadging 強調通過非正式或令人不悅的方式索取，需注意語境中的情感色彩。如需更多例句或用法擴展，可參考詞典來源。
單詞"cadging"的意思是乞讨或者乞求。它通常被用來指某人或某物在強行獲得或者索取别人的東西，而沒有給予任何東西或者回報。
以下是一些用例和解釋：
他一直在街上乞讨，但是沒有人願意給他錢。 (He was cadging on the street, but nobody was willing to give him money.)
我不喜歡那個人，因為他總是想辦法從我這裡得到一些東西。 (I don't like that person because he's always trying to cadge something from me.)
她總是在乞求别人的關注，但是很少回報他們。 (She's always cadging attention from others but rarely gives anything back.)
"cadging"的近義詞包括begging、sponging、parasitizing等。它的反義詞則包括giving、sharing、donating等。
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