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

• Get busy on those home improvement projects that you've been procrastinating about.
  你一直延迟住房改善计划，现在是时候进行了。
• Faith, honesty, patience, and courage bring success to a new business. Waiting, procrastinating, hatred, and blaming others for your mistakes bring failure to a business.
  信心、诚实、耐力、勇敢，都是创业的资本；等待、拖延、迁怒、怨怼，则是失败的根本。
• By writing down your aspirations for one week, you will be more in tune with taking action today instead of procrastinating.
  通过写下你一周的小小理想，你更有可能会今天就开始行动而不是一再的耽搁。
• 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。
• 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。
• In fact many of us may not even realize that we are procrastinating.
  事实上，我们很多人甚至不知道自己经常拖沓。
• It is also an achievement that, after much procrastinating, BRICs members may be ready to consider seriously the idea of funding a Development Bank of their own.
  另一项成就是，在拖延多年之后，金砖国家可能终于打算认真考虑出资组建一家隶属于该集团的发展银行。
• 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。
• ( saying) procrastination is the thief of time ( procrastinating wastes time)
  谚）因循延宕是时间的窃贼（拖延就是浪费时间）。
• Don't spend so long procrastinating about your CV that you never send out any applications.
  如果你不申请工作，不要浪费时间修饰你的简历。