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 by puttering aimlessly; dawdle.
  虚度光阴无目的地磨蹭而浪费时间；虚度（光阴）
• 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。
• 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；
• Or the assistant and she dawdle, men, or had to go home to bring the cat cat food to buy.
  还是那个售货员，男子又与她磨蹭了半天，结果还是不得不回家把猫带来才买到了猫食。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To move ina leisurely or aimless manner; dawdle.
  闲荡悠闲地无目地移动；闲逛。
• "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。
• 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。