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

• 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？
• 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。
• Are you willing to stop procrastinating and start doing?
  你想要不再耽搁时间并开始做事吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• Others-mostly procrastinating perfectionists-must create anxiety-producing situations in order to get anything done.
  还有些人大多数是办事拖沓的完美主义者则必须制造出一个能产生紧张感的环境才能顺利完成工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。