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sofa-surf
verb[ I ]
mainly UKinformaluk /ˈsəʊ.fəˌsɜːf/ us /ˈsoʊ.fəˌsɝːf/
to stay with a series of different friends or relatives, sleeping somewhere temporary such as a sofa, because you do not have your own place to live: 沙发冲浪（因为没有住所而到多个朋友或亲戚家寄宿，比如睡在别人家的沙发上）
We can give you advice on what to do if you are homeless and are sofa-surfing.如果你无家可归，正在沙发冲浪，我们可以给你一些建议。
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sofa-surfing
He sofa-surfed for a while after being kicked out on Christmas Day.
She says about 70 percent of the homeless young people on the charity's records have sofa-surfed before running out of options.
I’m homeless and am sofa-surfing.
One in five young people, aged 16 to 25, have sofa surfed in the past year because they had nowhere else to go.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Homelessness
bag lady
be of/have no fixed abode/addressidiom
couch surf
couchsurfing
derelict
doss
dumping ground
homeless
homelessness
hostel
housing benefit
mendicancy
rough sleeping
sofa-surfing
soup kitchen
street
street child
vagrancy
waif
waifs and straysidiom
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