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

• 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。
• 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。
• Instead, do your most important thing for the day, or the thing you've been procrastinating on the most.
  相反，你要做当天最重要的事情，或者是一直在拖延的事情。
• 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。
• 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。
• Punctual people get everything done ahead of time, because procrastinating means stressing out and scrambling at the last minute.
  守时的人往往提前完成任务，因为拖延意味着增加压力，越到最后越抓狂。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。