dawdling

1. VERB 闲逛;游荡
   If you dawdle, 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。
2. VERB 慢吞吞地做;（在…上）磨蹭
   If you dawdle over something, 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。

1. Stop dawdling and do something useful!
   不要挨时间了，做点有益的事吧！
2. Stop dawdling and finish your work!
   别瞎泡了，快把工作做完！
3. You are always dawdling.
   你总是泡蘑菇。
4. When will you ever be able to finish, if you go on dawdling like this?
   如果你这么泡蘑菇，什么时候才完得了？
5. Stop dawdling and get going.
   快走吧，别再磨时间了。
6. It was all because of your dawdling that we were late.
   都是你老磨蹭，害得我们迟到了。
7. Stop dawdling and get on with your work.
   快干吧，别蹭时间了。
8. If you go dawdling like this, when will you ever be able to finish?
   你这么抠抠搜搜的，什么时候才办完？
9. Stop dawdling and get moving.
   别磨蹭了，快走吧。
10. When on earth will we finish if we keep on dawdling like this?
    这么拖下去，驴年马月才能干完？
11. After dawdling for years, governments must race to beat the clock.
    虚度多年光阴后，各国政府现在必须争分夺秒。
12. Xiao has been estranged from his roommate and former buddy because he was short-tempered with him for dawdling before leaving for classes.
    肖已经和他以前的好朋友兼室友疏远了，因为室友去上课之前磨磨蹭蹭让他受不了。
13. Stop dawdling and hurry up: we're late.
    别磨磨蹭蹭了，快点儿吧：咱们晚了。
14. I've yet to see him dithering and dawdling over anything!
    我从没见过他办一件事要花半天工夫！
15. The cow was dawdling the fields.
    牛在田野里游荡。
16. Come along now, let's have no more dawdling.
    快些，别再东游西荡了。
17. The17 countries and four European institutions now entangled in the euro zone crisis will continue trying to muddle through, but their dawdling can't be sustained.
    陷于欧元区危机的17个国家和4家欧洲机构将继续胡乱对付，但他们不可能一直这样懒散下去。
18. Stop dawdling and try to finish your homework before bedtime.
    别磨洋工了，争取在上床睡觉前完成作业。
19. He has been dawdling his time away.
    他中直在虚度光阴。
20. He is dawdling behind, not wanting to catch up.
    他慢慢地走在后面，不想赶上来。
21. Some people like to spend an afternoon just dawdling around the shops.
    有些人喜欢花一个下午在商店里闲逛。
22. She doesn't get her work done because she's always dawdling.
    她没做完，总是磨洋工。
23. Stop dawdling away your homework.
    快把作业做好，别拖拉了。
24. I'll starving and you're still dawdling.
    我都饥肠辘辘了，你还磨磨蹭蹭的。
25. The camel is dawdling along the sandy path.
    骆驼沿着沙径懒洋洋地走着。
26. Sports make the oxygen dawdling amount and the fat quality oxidative rate increase, the body anti-oxidant ability and the red cell membranes fluidity decrease.
    运动增加了氧耗量，导致机体抗氧化能力的下降以及脂质过氧化机率的提高，同时还降低了红细胞膜的流动性。
27. Methods: The productive technology, raw material, dawdling amount, the emission amount of Cr 6+ and chromium pollution in drinking water were surveyed in the scene.
    方法：现场调查生产工艺、原料及耗量、废水Cr6+排放量及对居民饮用井水污染情况。

noun

1. the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

   Synonym:    dalliancetrifling