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单词 dawdle
释义
dawdle
verb[I]
uk
/ˈdɔː.dəl/us
/ˈdɑː.dəl/
to do something or gosomewhereveryslowly, taking moretimethan isnecessary:
磨蹭；磨洋工；拖沓
Stop dawdling! You'll be late forschool!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.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slow and moving slowly
  • (as) slow as molassesidiom
  • at a snail's paceidiom
  • by and byidiom
  • by degreesidiom
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • drift
  • float
  • infiltrate
  • infiltration
  • jog
  • labour
  • lag
  • laggard
  • laggy
  • sluggishness
  • snail
  • steadily
  • steadiness
  • steady
  • struggle
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Delaying and wasting time
(Definition ofdawdlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dawdle| American Dictionary

dawdle
verb[I]
us
/ˈdɔ·dəl/
to do something veryslowly, as if you do notwanttofinishit:
She told herdaughtertoquitdawdling and getdressedor she’d be late forschool.
(Definition ofdawdlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdawdle

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This inquiry maydawdleon, and ships may leave port to-day and go down with all hands.
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The dawdling probably caused the situation to escalate.
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Police are for fighting crime, not for dawdling along motorways behind mobile classrooms and grain silos.
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I do not know why it dawdled on for a year or eighteen months.
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We must teach them to be efficient so that they do notdawdledown the middle of the road.
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Do they intend todawdleand dither while other forms of energy are researched?
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We have spent a long time dawdling and making excuses.
FromEuroparl 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.
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I think that they have been dawdling along.
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In the meantime we have no excuse for further dawdling and dilatory action.
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There were other illustrations of that kind of dawdling.
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He never concealed it; he has been perfectly straightforward—and we dawdled for weeks.
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We are still drifting and dawdling as the precious months flow out.
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It is only that we have dawdled at it, cluttering it up with compromises, with red tape, with delays amounting to weeks.
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All that has to be done about such complaints is todawdleover the investigation process, and then no action is taken against the offender.
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