| 词汇 | dawdle |
| 释义 | dawdle verb[ I ] uk /ˈdɔː.dəl/ us /ˈdɑː.dəl/ to do something or go somewhere very slowly, taking more time than is necessary: 磨蹭;磨洋工;拖沓 Stop dawdling! You'll be late for school!别磨蹭了！你上学要迟到了！ to move slowly crawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling. trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes. creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise. trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow. strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest. ambleHe ambled over to the window. Slow and moving slowly (as) slow as molassesidiom at a snail's paceidiom by and byidiom by degreesidiom claw your way (somewhere)idiom float in ones and twosidiom inch by inchidiom infiltrate infiltration jog labour lag sluggishly sluggishness snail staged steadily struggle wander You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Delaying and wasting time dawdle | American Dictionarydawdle verb[ I ] us/ˈdɔ·dəl/ to do something very slowly, as if you do not want to finish it: She told her daughter to quit dawdling and get dressed or she’d be late for school. Examples of dawdledawdle This inquiry may dawdle on, and ships may leave port to-day and go down with all hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dawdling probably caused the situation to escalate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Police are for fighting crime, not for dawdling along motorways behind mobile classrooms and grain silos. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know why it dawdled on for a year or eighteen months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must teach them to be efficient so that they do not dawdle down the middle of the road. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they intend to dawdle and dither while other forms of energy are researched? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have spent a long time dawdling and making excuses. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Nevertheless, motorists driving at the limit prescribed invariably find themselves almost dawdling in a stream of traffic which is going very much faster. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that they have been dawdling along. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the meantime we have no excuse for further dawdling and dilatory action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were other illustrations of that kind of dawdling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He never concealed it; he has been perfectly straightforward—and we dawdled for weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are still drifting and dawdling as the precious months flow out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is only that we have dawdled at it, cluttering it up with compromises, with red tape, with delays amounting to weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that has to be done about such complaints is to dawdle over the investigation process, and then no action is taken against the offender. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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