Dawdle

(v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

(v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

(n.) A dawdler.

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• The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hope I shall have done something to be proud of by that time, but I'm such a lazy dog, I'm afraid I shall dawdle, Jo. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Ma won't be down for ever so long, she said, and then it's a chance if breakfast's ready for an hour afterwards, they dawdle so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Come, Fanny, taking her hand, do not be dawdling any longer, or the dance will be over. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I'm tired of dawdling, and mean to work like a man. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Everybody dawdled that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Gerald went across into the darkness and they dawdled past him, talking happily, Birkin's voice low, Ursula's high and distinct. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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