dawdle

英 [ˈdɔːdl]

美 [ˈdɔːdl]

v.  拖延; 磨蹭; 游荡

现在分词：dawdling　过去式：dawdled　第三人称单数：dawdles　过去分词：dawdled　复数：dawdles　

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BNC.23697 / COCA.20624

牛津词典

verb

• 拖延；磨蹭；游荡
  to take a long time to do sth or go somewhere
  1. Stop dawdling! We're going to be late!
     别磨蹭了，咱们快迟到了！
  2. They dawdled along by the river, laughing and talking.
     他们沿河边闲逛，一路谈笑风生。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 闲逛;游荡
  If youdawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
  1. Eleanor will be back any moment, if she doesn't dawdle...
     如果不闲荡的话，埃莉诺随时都会回来。
  2. They dawdled arm in arm past the shopfronts.
     他们手挽手慢悠悠地逛过一家家店面。
• VERB 慢吞吞地做;（在…上）磨蹭
  If youdawdle oversomething, you spend more time than is necessary doing something.
  1. He got fed up as bank staff dawdled over cashing him a cheque...
     银行职员慢吞吞地给他兑现支票，他憋了一肚子气。
  2. She downed two glasses of white wine while I dawdled over a draught beer.
     我慢悠悠地呷着一杯散装啤酒的工夫她已经灌下了两杯白葡萄酒。

英英释义

verb

• hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  Synonym:lagfall backfall behind
• waste time
  1. Get busy--don't dally!
  Synonym:dally
• take one's time
  Synonym:linger

双语例句

• I couldn't dawdle over my coffee any longer.
  我不能再在咖啡上浪费时间了。
• Now I was dawdle, because I can not simply about my life, because I fit a child, one day at it, I hope the world is, unfortunately, women are equally able to usher in the spring of their own.
  现在的我就是在混日子，因为我根本左右不了我的生活，因为我放不下孩子，过一天算一天吧，希望天下不幸的女人都同样能迎来属于自己的春天。
• WASHINGTON& While the United States and Japan dawdle over the last details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, China is moving to fill the vacuum.
  华盛顿&美国和日本就跨太平洋伙伴关系（Trans-PacificPartnership，简称TPP）最后的细节久拖不决之时，中国正积极地填补空白。
• If you dawdle in the shower, you'll make me late for work.
  如果你洗澡磨磨蹭蹭的，就会害得我迟到。
• He got fed up as bank staff dawdled over cashing him a cheque
  银行职员慢吞吞地给他兑现支票，他憋了一肚子气。
• To move ina leisurely or aimless manner; dawdle.
  闲荡悠闲地无目地移动；闲逛。
• Eleanor will be back any moment, if she doesn't dawdle
  如果不闲荡的话，埃莉诺随时都会回来。
• Optimize the structure of industry and implement the industrial policy that low energy consumption, low electricity dawdle;
  优化产业结构，实行低能耗、低电耗的产业政策；
• Look smart! Don't always dawdle about like that!
  快一点！别总是那么拖拖拉拉！
• As you dawdle on your couch and start yourself being magnetized by their shows, you will have to see and read this list first, as to how much they have earned this year.
  当你轻松的躺在沙发上，被他们的表演吸引的时候，你得先看看这份演员收入排行榜名单。