| 词汇 | dawdled |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | dawdled past simple and past participle ofdawdle dawdle verb[ I ] uk /ˈdɔː.dəl/ us /ˈdɑː.dəl/ to do something or go somewhere very slowly, taking more time than is necessary: 磨蹭;磨洋工;拖沓 Stop dawdling! You'll be late for school!别磨蹭了！你上学要迟到了！ to move slowly crawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling. trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes. creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise. trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow. strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest. ambleHe ambled over to the window. Slow and moving slowly (as) slow as molassesidiom at a snail's paceidiom by and byidiom by degreesidiom claw your way (somewhere)idiom crawl float hang around in ones and twosidiom inch by inchidiom infiltrate infiltration jog labour sluggish sluggishly sluggishness snail staged wander You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Delaying and wasting time Examples of dawdleddawdled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I do not know why it dawdled on for a year or eighteen months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He never concealed it; he has been perfectly straightforward—and we dawdled for weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is only that we have dawdled at it, cluttering it up with compromises, with red tape, with delays amounting to weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have dawdled far too long in the development of the railways. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It has dawdled a very long time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The chameleon was slow and dawdled, taking time to eat and sleep. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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