dally

英 [ˈdæli]

美 [ˈdæli]

v.  蹉跎(时光); 延误; 拖拉

过去式：dallied　现在分词：dallying　过去分词：dallied　第三人称单数：dallies　

GRE

BNC.33538 / COCA.30380

短语用例

dally with sb/sth

• 轻率地对待；玩弄；戏弄
  to treat sb/sth in a way that is not serious enough

牛津词典

verb

• 蹉跎（时光）；延误；拖拉
  to do sth too slowly; to take too much time making a decision

柯林斯词典

• VERB 慢吞吞地做;拖延
  If youdally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
  1. The bureaucrats dallied too long...
     这些官僚拖拉了太久。
  2. He did not dally over the choice of a partner.
     他没有在选择合伙人的问题上浪费时间。
• VERB 调情;挑逗
  If someonedallies withyou, they have a romantic, but not serious, relationship with you.
  1. In the past he dallied with actresses and lady novelists.
     他过去曾与许多女演员和女小说家调情。

英英释义

verb

• consider not very seriously
  1. He is trifling with her
  2. She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania
  Synonym:trifleplay
• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  1. The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
  2. My husband never flirts with other women
  Synonym:chat upflirtbutterflycoquetcoquetteromancephilandermash
• waste time
  1. Get busy--don't dally!
  Synonym:dawdle
• behave carelessly or indifferently
  1. Play about with a young girl's affection
  Synonym:toyplayflirt

双语例句

• The dally varying rhythm of main behaviors of Chinese alligator showed that from 6:00 to 7:00 in summer morning, there is a resting fastigium and a diving fastigium from 12:30 to 13:30 in the afternoon.
  夏季，扬子鳄休息行为的时间最多，日变化规律显示：早晨6：00-7：00为休息高峰期；下午12：30-13：30为潜水高峰期。
• She has seen dally from her chamber-window towers, villages, faint white mansions; above all the town of Shaston standing majestically on its height; its windows shining like lamps in the evening sun.
  每天她都从自己房间的窗户里看见教堂的钟楼、村庄和白色的屋宇；尤其是高踞山顶的威严的沙斯顿小镇特别惹人注意；小镇的窗玻璃在夕阳里闪闪发光，宛如一盏盏灯火。
• What are you doing? Don't dilly dally, hurry up!
  是啊，你怎么知道我上回在屋外没种成？
• He did not dally over the choice of a partner.
  他没有在选择合伙人的问题上浪费时间。
• Any delay because of the dally over payments, seller will take no responsibility.
  任何货款到帐的延误，卖方不负任何责任！
• Methods of dally life management;
  生活管理的方法；
• Completion with external casing packer features high dally production and long period of production while cementing with filtrate reducing cement slurry system results in medium daily production.
  采用管外封隔器完井，日产量高，生产周期长；采用降失水水泥浆体系固井，日产量适中。
• If you don't intend to marry Sally, you'd better not dally with her.
  你要是不想与萨莉结婚，你最好就不要同她调情。
• The image become more and more important in our dally life, and we can see it everywhere.
  形象在人们的社会生活中占有着越来越重要的位置，我们的口头、书面、形体、行为语言越来越离不开形象，它的触角已延伸到社会生活的各个角落。
• Don't dally about or we'll be late.
  别磨磨蹭蹭了，要不然我们就来不及了。