procrastinate
verb [intransitive] (formal, disapproving)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they procrastinate | |
| he / she / it procrastinates | |
| past simple procrastinated | |
| past participle procrastinated | |
| -ing form procrastinating |
to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it 拖延；耽搁 People were dying of starvation while governments procrastinated. 饥民正挣扎在死亡线上，而政府行动却拖拖拉拉。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred till the morning’, from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’).