procrastinating

英 [prəʊˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ]

美 [proʊˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ]

v.  拖延; 耽搁
procrastinate的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拖延；耽搁；延迟
  If youprocrastinate, you keep leaving things you should do until later, often because you do not want to do them.
  1. Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.
     面对不想做的事情，我们经常拖延。

双语例句

• One of the easiest habits to get stuck in, besides procrastinating, is to keep yourself busy with unimportant tasks.
  除了拖拖拉拉以外，你最容易陷入的不良习惯之一就是忙于一些无关紧要的事情之中。
• So before you beat yourself up for procrastinating, check to see whether you make a career out of it.
  因此，在你为拖拉狠狠的责备自己的时候，查看你是否可以从中成就事业。
• Procrastinating could easily be the sweetest thing in the world, if deadlines did not exist. With a mountain-like load of work waiting to crush you under its weight, you cannot afford to waste time.
  要是没有最后期限这回事，拖延可谓是世界上最美好的事情了。面对堆积如山的任务，在如此重压之下，你再也不能浪费时间了。
• The unqualified, degraded, slothful, deceptive, overbearing, lazy, morose and procrastinating performer of actions is called in the nature of ignorance.
  那些不合格的，堕落的，投机取巧的，欺诈的，傲慢专横的，懒惰的，郁闷怪僻的，拖拖拉拉的行为者就是处于愚昧无知的品性中。
• As the experience with Argentina suggests, procrastinating will make the unavoidable crash and the regional contagion even more dramatic and costly.
  正如阿根廷的经验表明的那样，拖延将会让这场不可避免的危机及其对本地区的危害更加严重、造成更大的损失。
• Others-mostly procrastinating perfectionists-must create anxiety-producing situations in order to get anything done.
  还有些人大多数是办事拖沓的完美主义者则必须制造出一个能产生紧张感的环境才能顺利完成工作。
• Do something you've been procrastinating on.
  做那些你一直拖延的事情。
• For example, if you plan on writing four chapters of your soon-to-be-published book in a month, it is not until the fourth week that you'll consider yourself actually procrastinating.
  比如，你即将出版的书，如果计划在一个月里写四个章节，很可能直到第四周你才会意识到自己一直在拖延。
• Naturally, punctual people don't stay up as late, because they avoid procrastinating.
  自然而然，准时的人就不会熬夜，因为他们避免拖延。
• It might be procrastinating on updating your r é sum é and missing a huge opportunity, or spending a night in front of the refrigerator after dieting for three months.
  可能由于更新简历拖拉从而错过了一次大机会。或者在三个月节食后整晚上在冰箱前吃东西。