dawdled

英 [ˈdɔːdld]

美 [ˈdɔːdld]

v.  拖延; 磨蹭; 游荡
dawdle的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• Refuse to recap meetings for someone who arrives late, which both encourages those who showed up on time and penalizes those who dawdled.
  如果有人开会迟到，不要特地为他们回述会议要点，这既能鼓励及时出席的员工，又惩罚了那些拖拖拉拉的人。
• But when the train dawdled at station after station, I began to wonder.
  但是，当火车一站接着一站往前蠕动时，我便产生了怀疑。
• He dawdled nervously toward the door, wishing to melt away.
  他心神不宁地慢慢向门口倒退，恨不得一下子化为乌有。
• The morning ritual of washing and dressing was soothing, and she dawdled over it, sorting through her new outfits from Paris.
  她慢吞吞地洗漱，打扮，完成了早晨的一系列例行公事，还分类整理了从巴黎带回来的新时装，这样终于使她平静了一些。
• Patty dawdled away four years in college.
  帕蒂在大学里混了四年。
• 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。
• It didn't even really have any scientific or practical purpose-Zhai basically dawdled around for twenty minutes, retrieved a few experimental samples, and waved the Chinese flag.
  翟志刚只是在外晃了二十分钟，提取了几个实验样本，并挥舞了中国国旗。
• The job hunter dawdled all morning but achieved nothing.
  这个找工作的人闲混了一个上午，一无所获。
• She dawdled over her breakfast.
  她慢腾腾地吃着早饭。
• They dawdled arm in arm past the shopfronts.
  他们手挽手慢悠悠地逛过一家家店面。