1. He's always cadging meals from his friends. 他总吃朋友的便宜饭。
2. They're just a bunch of leeches cadging off others! 他们只不过是一帮伸手向人要这要那的寄生虫!
3. 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,他昙花一现,像其他明星一样,被迫变成到舞会上乞讨罪犯和匈牙利同胞的同情而施舍的几个子儿。
4. 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. 六十岁的时候,因为咽喉癌他变得极度憔悴瘦削,说话只能丝丝细语,喝杯酒、买份《赛事邮报》都要跟朋友伸手,他发觉自己退回到了贝尔法斯特的荒凉时光。
5. 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. 后来,这个以无业人员、流浪者为主的群体,渐渐形成一个正式的组织,每年定期缴纳15元会费,用作在餐馆、福利院聚会时的场地租金。