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词汇 dawdling
释义 dawdling
present participle ofdawdle
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!
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slow and moving slowly
(as) slow as molassesidiom
at a snail's paceidiom
by and byidiom
by degreesidiom
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
crawl
float
hang around
in ones and twosidiom
inch by inchidiom
infiltrate
infiltration
jog
labour
sluggish
sluggishly
sluggishness
snail
staged
wander

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Delaying and wasting time

Examples of dawdling


dawdling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is a crisis now, thanks to their dawdling.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He is sitting there more or less dawdling along.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I want to know why there is this dilatory, dawdling procedure.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There was no question of dawdling.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Each programme, just 15 minutes long, focuses on just one thing, quite patiently, without dawdling.
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Wikipedia

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