每天三分钟学英语 第158期:英文"拖延症"怎么说

 情景对话：

A: My New Year's resolution is to stop procrastinating¹.

B: Yeah, that's a bad habit that I'm guilty of sometimes.

A: I hate waiting to do things at the last minute. I feel so bad about it.

今日知识点：

New Year's resolution 新年决心

Procrastinate² v. 拖延症

Procrastination³ n. 拖延症

stop procrastinating 治好拖延症

That's a bad habit that I'm guilty of. 那是个我也有的坏习惯。

Do things at the last minute 最后一分钟做事情

I want to stop doing things at the last minute. 我想不在最后一分钟做事情了。

Last minute 最后一分钟

Last minute shopping 最后一分钟购物

I feel so bad about it. 我觉得很不好。

1 procrastinating   

拖延，耽搁( procrastinate的现在分词 )； 拖拉

参考例句：

• Begin while others are procrastinating. Save while others are wasting. 当别人拖延时你开始。当别人浪费时你节约。
• Before adjourning, councillors must stop procrastinating and revisit this controversial issue. 在休会之前，参议员必须停止拖延，重新讨论这个引起争议的问题。

2 procrastinate   

v.耽搁，拖延

参考例句：

• Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.面对不想做的事情，我们经常拖延。
• It's easy to procrastinate when the deadline seems infinitely far away.当最终期限总是遥遥无期时是很容易延期的。

3 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。