Dawdle
['dɔːd(ə)l]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
(v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
(n.) A dawdler.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Trifle, dally, fiddle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time, fool away time.
錄入:特丽萨
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Lag, dally, idle
ANT:Haste, speed, dash, rush, work, fag
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to waste time by trifling: to act or move slowly.—n. Daw′dler.
手打:路易
例句/造句/用法:
- The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I hope I shall have done something to be proud of by that time, but I'm such a lazy dog, I'm afraid I shall dawdle, Jo. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Ma won't be down for ever so long, she said, and then it's a chance if breakfast's ready for an hour afterwards, they dawdle so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Come, Fanny, taking her hand, do not be dawdling any longer, or the dance will be over. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I'm tired of dawdling, and mean to work like a man. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Everybody dawdled that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Gerald went across into the darkness and they dawdled past him, talking happily, Birkin's voice low, Ursula's high and distinct. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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