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

• 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。
• 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。
• Look smart! Don't always dawdle about like that!
  快一点！别总是那么拖拖拉拉！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They dawdled arm in arm past the shopfronts.
  他们手挽手慢悠悠地逛过一家家店面。
• And when she graces him with a light, brushing kiss, he doesn't dawdle in accepting it.
  而当她向他施以一个又轻又快的吻时，他在接受时也不会表现出漫不经心的态度。
• 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。
• 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）