William: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English from www.bbcukchina.com. I'm William. 大家好，这里是来自bbcukchina网地道美语节目。我是威廉。

Feifei: I'm Feifei. 我是菲菲。

William: Feifei...? 菲菲……？

Feifei: What? 怎么了？

William: Don't you want to say hello to our listeners? 你难道不应该跟听众朋友们问声好吗？

Feifei: Hello. 大家好。

William: What's the matter? 发生什么事了？

Feifei: 我很生气，因为我的朋友 Kate 实在是太不够意思了。我每6个月才见她一次，可以她每次来的时候都不提前打招呼，总是搞突袭。昨天晚上她没提前通知我，突然来我家，虽然没准备，但是见老朋友总是件高兴事儿。

William: Hmmm, that sounds nice. Go on. 嗯，听起来不错，继续说。

Feifei: 老朋友来我家，我赶紧拿出一瓶好酒来招待。可是谁都没想到，她就是来借我的电子字典。我给她字典之后她就走了。连那杯酒都没喝完！

William: Oh dear! She doesn't sound like a very good friend. 哦，天啊！听起来她不是很友好么。

Feifei: She's always scrounging stuff off me. I lent her my radio last year and I've still not had it back. 她总是喜欢骗走我的东西。她去年从我这儿借走收音机到现在还没有还给我。

William: Well, look on the bright side Feifei. You've just used a word that we can look at in our programme today. To scrounge. 嗯，菲菲要往好的方面看。你刚才用到了今天我们要说到的单词。

Feifei: To scrounge. 这是一个贬义词，意思就是骗取某物。

William: Listen to this example of one way to use the verb to scrounge. 听下面用scrounge这个动词造句的例子。

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Woman: Hi, Denise... could you do me a favour? 你好，丹尼斯……能帮我一个忙吗？

Woman 2: Yeah, what can I do for you? 是的，需要我为你做些什么？

Woman: Can I possibly scrounge 10p off you? 能给我10便士吗？

Woman 2: Yes, of course! Here you are. 是的，当然！给你。
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Feifei: 上面对话中的女士用 scrounge 来形容自己向朋友索要10便士的行为。Can I possibly scrounge 10p off you?

William: Yes, that's how we use that word; to scrounge something off someone. And you can see that even though this word scrounge is quite negative, we can use it to describe our own actions in a humorous way. Feifei, can I scrounge a pen off you? 是的，这就是如何使用这个短语。你可以看出，尽管这个词是贬义的，我们可以诙谐地用这个词来描述自己。能把这支笔给我了吗？

Feifei: No you can't! I'm sick of people scrounging stuff off me. William 我们能不能把 scrounge 当名词来用呢？

William: Almost. If you want to describe someone who scrounges a lot, like your friend Kate, Feifei, we can call them a scrounger. 大多数情况下可以。如果你想描述一个爱骗取别人东西的人，比如你的朋友凯特。菲菲，我们可以称找个人是个骗子。

Feifei: A scrounger 就是一个总是骗取他人之物的人。不过这个词非常的贬义，所以在使用的时候要注意。

William: Scrounger. It's a word that you sometimes read in newspapers to describe people who don't work but live off the state.

Feifei: 是的，英国的小报经常会称一些自己不工作，只靠政府的救济金来生活的人scroungers, 因为 they are scrounging off the state.

William: There's also a phrase linked to the verb to scrounge. And I think that this phrase is not so serious, it's often quite a humorous one. So let's hear an example and see if you can catch what the phrase is. 也有和这个词语相关的短语。我想这个词组不是很严肃，它常常表现得十分幽默。来听这个例子，看看是不是掌握了这个词组。

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Woman: Hi, Tom. We don't see you up our end of the office very often. 汤姆，你好。自从我们不在一个办公室了，我就很少能看见你。

Man: I'm on the scrounge for paperclips. Have you got any spare ones? 我在找回形针。你有多余的吗？
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Feifei: 对话中的男士说 I'm on the scrounge for paperclips 的意思就是他在找曲别针。他虽然用了单词 scrounge, 但是这里并不是贬义的，只是表示他需要什么东西 on the scrounge for something. Well, I'll tell you one thing, William.

William: What's that, Feifei? 菲菲，那是什么？

Feifei: I've had enough of scroungers. Next time Kate turns up at my door, she'd better have my dictionary and my radio and I don't care what she says, I'm not lending her anything ever again. 我已经了解足够多的关于爱骗取别人东西的人的特质了。下次凯特来最好先把我的辞典和收音机还给我。不管他说什么，我都不会把东西借给了。

William: Good for you, Feifei! Stand up for yourself! 菲菲，这样很好！做自己想做的！

Can I scrounge a cigarette?