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。
• 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。
• I know I've got to deal with the problem at some point& I'm just procrastinating.
  我知道我迟早得处理这个问题&我只是在拖延时间。
• Stop re-reading those tasks you've been procrastinating and set deadlines for yourself to complete them.
  别再为这些你一再拖延的工作设定最后期限了，不如划去这些旧任务，这样你才有时间有精力去完成新的任务。
• If you work like this, you'll usually save time: the urgent tasks will still get done, and you won't spend hours procrastinating over the important ones.
  如果你按照这样的方式工作，你通常能省下时间：既能完成紧急的事情，而你又不会延误重要的事情。
• ( 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）。
• Organization expert Peter Walsh says the one habit you should drop this year is procrastinating.
  组织专家彼得-沃尔什认为今年应改掉拖延的坏习惯。
• 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。
• The first step to correct your procrastinating tendencies is to ascertain the activities that tempt you to distraction.
  改善拖延症的第一步就是要确定分散你注意力的行为有哪些。
• 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。