英:['dɪlɪdælɪ]
美:['dɪlɪˌdælɪ]
英:['dɪlɪdælɪ]
美:['dɪlɪˌdælɪ]
Verb
1. postpone doing what one should be doing;
"He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
reduplication of dally
The first known use of dillydally was in 1741
dingyadjective
rather dark and dirty : not fresh or clean dingy colors
a dingy room
ding-dongnoun
the ringing sound made by repeated strokes especially on a bell
diminutive1 of 2noun
a diminutive word, name, or affix
a diminutive object or individual
diminutive2 of 2adjective
indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being lovable or pitiful the diminutive noun "duckling"
the diminutive suffixes "-ette" and "-ling"
extremely small : tiny
dillydallyverb
to waste time : dawdle
1 Barr weighed in on the one-month delay, acknowledging the House had been dillydallying, something that he said did not happen when he was an impeachment manager more than two decades ago.
2 And Wooden O's streamlined open-air production doesn't dillydally a bit.
3 I dillydallied and we lost out on the chandelier.
4 In the light of modern experience gained by modern governments dillydallying with sumptuary legislation that has been discarded as a bad job some two thousand years ago, the question seems superfluous.
5 All three airlines I contacted delayed, obfuscated or otherwise dillydallied before getting me answers, but let’s start with your travel agent, American Express.
6 Running also makes me a better writer by giving my brain a time out, and I tend to be more efficient in my work when I’m running: I don’t dillydally so much; I just do.
7 A pooch sniffing fire hydrants in San Francisco may appear to be dillydallying.
8 Put one in airplanes to get dillydallying passengers into their seats.
9 The ex-Burnley striker provided an assist for Stuart Armstrong and made Ben Mee pay for dillydallying on the ball with a brilliantly taken goal.
10 What vexes isn’t the duration but the dillydallying.
11 Don't dillydally. It's time for going to school.
别磨蹭了, 该去上学了.
12 This is such an easy call, but Trump dillydallied.
13 There is also evidence that they are moving more slowly than they used to, dillydallying toward coastal areas.
14 Bathroom breaks and other excuses for dillydallying give your heart rate a chance to return to normal.
15 “Why are we dillydallying in protecting a child? The lack of serious urgency about this case is disturbing,” she added.
16 “We don’t have too much longer to dillydally before they go extinct,” she said.
17 restaurant employees who, during the slow periods, would rather be doing something instead of just dillydallying
18 “We don’t have time to dillydally,” Larry had said when he addressed the congregation, explaining that selling to the Arab Baptists might be their best hope of keeping the church from closing.
19 If you dillydally about any longer, we shall miss our plane.
如果你再磨磨蹭蹭的话, 我们要误飞机了.
20 The eye looked at others to finish the job livelily, and I still am over there dillydally.
眼看着别人欢快地完成了任务,而我还在那里磨蹭。
5 闲逛
roam stroll swan lounge paseo gad play tool poke potter saunter gallivant maunder perambulate loiter
7 犹豫
backward hesitant hesitantly doubtfully hesitation wavering vacillation dillydallying incertitude dilly-dallying doubtfulness pause hesitate falter vacillate dilly-dally
8 吊儿郎当
9 游手好闲
truant slothful picaresque otiose drone piddle goldbrick sling about eat the bread of idleness laze about to hack around idle do-nothing lollingly dolittle goof loiter schloomp jack around beat around
10 三心两意