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To take a long time on purpose — or at least without hurry — when someone thinks you should be quicker. Children dawdle on the way to school; you dawdle over breakfast or over homework. Informal, and often a mild complaint from a parent or teacher, not a very angry word. You can dawdle over a task (stretch it out) or dawdle along the road (walk too slowly, stopping at nothing in particular). There is a rare noun a dawdle, but the verb is what people actually say. It is about wasting time by going slow, not about being unable to do the job.
磨蹭；拖拖拉拉（家長常罵小孩的那種）
組成Nobody is sure. It may be a cousin of old British dialect daddle or doddle (“walk slowly”), perhaps coloured by daw (“a lazy person”); or it may come from Middle Low German dȫdelen, “to dawdle.” Scholars treat all of these as probably sound-words, imitating a slow, aimless feel. The noun, when it appears, is just the verb reused.
同家族的字
- dawdlerdawdle + -er: the person who does this
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dawdleverb詞源 1/ˈdɔːdl̩/
- 1
Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- [M]anaging to live on terms with both / Opposing potentates, the Power and you, / Crowned with success, but dawdle out my days / In exile here at Clairvaux, with mock love, […]
- 2
To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
- Tell him, if he'll call on me, and davvdle over a diſh of tea in an afternoon, I ſhall take it kind.
- Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennett, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass he towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect of their nearer connection.
- 3
To move or walk lackadaisically.
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won’t get as much exercise.
- [W]e, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall, and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers— […]
dawdlenoun詞源 1/ˈdɔːdl̩/
- 1
An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
- 2
An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives.
- 3
Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
- Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。