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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• ( 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）。
• 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。
• While that sounds great, it also means the day can feel long, you might be more prone to procrastinating, or you find it difficult to concentrate and focus after a few hours of intense independent work.
  尽管这听起来很不错，但也意味着这一天似乎更加漫长一点，你也许拖延症会加剧，或者发现自己在几个小时的独立紧张工作之后难以集中注意力了。想改善这个情况？
• 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。
• 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。