Procrastinate
[ pro'kræstɪnet ]
出国 Abroad
vi. 拖延，耽搁;
💡 词根助记
pro很多…+crastin明天+ate动词后缀→有许多明天明日复明日→拖延
📝 例句
To be tardy in acting; procrastinate.
拖延行为上缓慢；耽搁
He procrastinate until it be too late to do anything at all
他因循坐误, 一事无成
He procrastinate until it is too late to do anything at all.
他因循坐误, 一事无成。
To procrastinate, I fell in with the spirit of the occasion.
为了拖延时间，我也就顺应看当时的气氛。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ pro-前缀“向前”,crastin-明天,ate-吃:明天再吃吧-拖延
※ pro-前缀“向前”,crast-crust面包皮,地壳,in,ate-吃:给你吃面包皮,吃得很慢,所以拖延了时间
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
procrastinate
v[I]
(fml derog 文, 贬) delay or postpone action 拖延; 耽搁; 因循
He procrastinated until it was too late to do anything at all. 他因循坐误, 一事无成.
🔁 扩展释义
*[prәu'kræstineit]vt. 延迟, 耽搁vi. 延迟, 耽搁
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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The interview and conversation between us in Beijing are quite useful and inspiring.
我们在北京的会面和谈话是十分有益和令人鼓舞的。
I tried to call Mr. Cooper,but the line was busy.
我试着呼叫库珀先生，但是线老是忙。
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.
其中一部分是约在2，000年前从印度尼西亚迁来的。