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To procrastinate is to put off a job you know you should do, usually because you do not want to start. The work is still yours; you have not given it to anyone else, and you have not agreed a new time. You just leave it. People do this with homework, emails, phone calls, cleaning — anything that feels heavy. It is a little more formal than “put it off,” but everyone uses it, and it almost always sounds a bit guilty, or at least honest. Though actually, it is not the same as postpone: postpone can be a real plan (“Let’s do it next week”). Procrastinate is the messy kind of waiting, the “I’ll do it tomorrow” kind, even when tomorrow is not a better day.
組成From Latin prōcrastinō, “put off till tomorrow”: prō- (“for / in favour of”) + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”), plus the English verb ending -ate. First written in English in 1548. The pieces really do say “leave it for tomorrow.”
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- procrastinationthe noun from the same Latin verb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
procrastinateverb/pɹəʊˈkɹæs.tɪ.neɪt/
- 1
To delay taking action; to wait until later.
- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
- 2
To put off; to delay (something).
- Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。