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

• To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.
  磨蹭浪费时间，尤指犹豫不定；闲混或踌躇。
• Some say that gives lawmakers incentive to do what a discouraged electorate expects: dawdle, even as California collapses.
  有人说，让国会议员奖励做什么劝阻选民期望：混日子，尽管加州崩溃。
• 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。
• 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；
• "Oh Grandma, I was so scared!" sobbed Little Red Riding Hood," I'll never speak to strangers or dawdle in the forest again."
  “噢，祖母，我非常害怕！”小红帽哭泣道。“我以后不会在和陌生人聊天或在森林里游荡了。”
• To waste time by puttering aimlessly; dawdle.
  虚度光阴无目的地磨蹭而浪费时间；虚度（光阴）
• 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。
• They do not dawdle long, but talk as they move.
  他们不会长时间闲逛，边走边讲电话。
• "We can Gazette certain areas and, within that area, we can instruct people to move along and not dawdle and attempt to do something which is disruptive," said Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister.
  “我们可以划定一些区域，在那些区域，我们会劝导人们不要逗留，也不要试图进行破坏性活动，”新加坡总理李显龙（leehsienloong）表示。
• Don't dawdle over your clothing. you're so beautiful already.
  不要再在衣着上花费时间了，你已经够漂亮的了。