William: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English from www.bbcukchina.com. I'm William. 大家好，這里是來自bbcukchina網地道美語節目。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? 你難道不應該跟聽眾朋友們問聲好嗎？

Feifei: Hello. 大家好。

William: What's the matter? 發生什么事了？

Feifei: 我很生氣，因為我的朋友 Kate 實在是太不夠意思了。我每6個月才見她一次，可以她每次來的時候都不提前打招呼，總是搞突襲。昨天晚上她沒提前通知我，突然來我家，雖然沒準備，但是見老朋友總是件高興事兒。

William: Hmmm, that sounds nice. Go on. 嗯，聽起來不錯，繼續說。

Feifei: 老朋友來我家，我趕緊拿出一瓶好酒來招待。可是誰都沒想到，她就是來借我的電子字典。我給她字典之后她就走了。連那杯酒都沒喝完！

William: Oh dear! She doesn't sound like a very good friend. 哦，天??！聽起來她不是很友好么。

Feifei: She's always scrounging stuff off me. I lent her my radio last year and I've still not had it back. 她總是喜歡騙走我的東西。她去年從我這兒借走收音機到現在還沒有還給我。

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。你剛才用到了今天我們要說到的單詞。

Feifei: To scrounge. 這是一個貶義詞，意思就是騙取某物。

William: Listen to this example of one way to use the verb to scrounge. 聽下面用scrounge這個動詞造句的例子。

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Woman: Hi, Denise... could you do me a favour? 你好，丹尼斯……能幫我一個忙嗎？

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

Woman: Can I possibly scrounge 10p off you? 能給我10便士嗎？

Woman 2: Yes, of course! Here you are. 是的，當然！給你。
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Feifei: 上面對話中的女士用 scrounge 來形容自己向朋友索要10便士的行為。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，這就是如何使用這個短語。你可以看出，盡管這個詞是貶義的，我們可以詼諧地用這個詞來描述自己。能把這支筆給我了嗎？

Feifei: No you can't! I'm sick of people scrounging stuff off me. William 我們能不能把 scrounge 當名詞來用呢？

William: Almost. If you want to describe someone who scrounges a lot, like your friend Kate, Feifei, we can call them a scrounger. 大多數情況下可以。如果你想描述一個愛騙取別人東西的人，比如你的朋友凱特。菲菲，我們可以稱找個人是個騙子。

Feifei: A scrounger 就是一個總是騙取他人之物的人。不過這個詞非常的貶義，所以在使用的時候要注意。

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，英國的小報經常會稱一些自己不工作，只靠政府的救濟金來生活的人scroungers, 因為 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. 也有和這個詞語相關的短語。我想這個詞組不是很嚴肅，它常常表現得十分幽默。來聽這個例子，看看是不是掌握了這個詞組。

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Woman: Hi, Tom. We don't see you up our end of the office very often. 湯姆，你好。自從我們不在一個辦公室了，我就很少能看見你。

Man: I'm on the scrounge for paperclips. Have you got any spare ones? 我在找回形針。你有多余的嗎？
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Feifei: 對話中的男士說 I'm on the scrounge for paperclips 的意思就是他在找曲別針。他雖然用了單詞 scrounge, 但是這里并不是貶義的，只是表示他需要什么東西 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. 我已經了解足夠多的關于愛騙取別人東西的人的特質了。下次凱特來最好先把我的辭典和收音機還給我。不管他說什么，我都不會把東西借給了。

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

Can I scrounge a cigarette?