dawdling

英 [ˈdɔːdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈdɔːdlɪŋ]

v.  拖延; 磨蹭; 游荡
dawdle的现在分词

现在分词：dawdling　

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

noun

• the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
  Synonym:dalliancetrifling

双语例句

• Stop dawdling and get moving.
  别磨蹭了，快走吧。
• It was all because of your dawdling that we were late.
  都是你老磨蹭，害得我们迟到了。
• When on earth will we finish if we keep on dawdling like this?
  这么拖下去，驴年马月才能干完？
• He has been dawdling his time away.
  他中直在虚度光阴。
• When will you ever be able to finish, if you go on dawdling like this?
  如果你这么泡蘑菇，什么时候才完得了？
• I've yet to see him dithering and dawdling over anything!
  我从没见过他办一件事要花半天工夫！
• The camel is dawdling along the sandy path.
  骆驼沿着沙径懒洋洋地走着。
• The17 countries and four European institutions now entangled in the euro zone crisis will continue trying to muddle through, but their dawdling can't be sustained.
  陷于欧元区危机的17个国家和4家欧洲机构将继续胡乱对付，但他们不可能一直这样懒散下去。
• If you go dawdling like this, when will you ever be able to finish?
  你这么抠抠搜搜的，什么时候才办完？
• Come along now, let's have no more dawdling.
  快些，别再东游西荡了。