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dawdle 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈdôdl/,
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dawdled, past tense; dawdled, past participle; dawdles, 3rd person singular present; dawdling, present participle;
  1. Waste time; be slow
    • - I couldn't dawdle over my coffee any longer
  2. Move slowly and idly
    • - Ruth dawdled back through the woods
  1. linger: take one's time; proceed slowly
  2. dally: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"
  3. lag: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  4. (dawdling) dalliance: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
  5. To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time; To spend time without haste or purpose; To move or walk lackadaisically
  6. (Dawdling) walking slowly. “Please go to the dairy and get the bread, and don’t dawdle home.”
  7. Paul Virilio, noting that Socrates was invariably late (atopos) to every appointment, suggests that philosophy itself is born of "idle (often pointless) curiosity, born of the disappearance of physical effort once this becomes unnecessary. ...
  8. i suggest you don't dawdle. The hounds will be released in ten minutes. —Burns, final speech for a company holiday at his manor.
  9. to waste time or be slow getting somewhere