| 例句 |
delayingverbpresent participle of delay to move or act slowlyshe ordered the kids to stop delaying and to get to bed crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, marking time, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking to assign to a later timeour guests delayed their departure until after dinner deferring, holding off (on), holding over, holding up, laying over, postponing, putting off, putting over, remitting, shelving suspendinghesitating, pausing, stayingdetaining, retarding, slowingextending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching (out)waiting acting, dealing (with), deciding (upon), doing, working (on) |