汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 蹉跎
蹉跎
(literary) to slip / (of looks etc) to fade away / (of time) to slip away / to squander (time, opportunities) / to dillydally
〈动〉光阴白白地过去:岁月~|一再~。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你不要在空想中蹉跎一生。

You should not dream your life away.

抗缆一场无人问津的梦,一场水月镜花的蹉跎

A dream nobody CARES, a Suigetsu mirror flower wasted.

总是存在着一种贪得无厌的暗流,一种非分之想,一种蹉跎的感觉。

There was always an undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste.

最后,但绝非不重要,就是从今天做起,因为日日待明日,万事成蹉跎

Last, but never least, is to get into action today, because tomorrow never comes.

迁延蹉跎,来日无多,二十丽姝,请来吻我,衰草枯杨,青春易过。(英国剧作家莎士比亚。W。)

In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth "s a stuff that will not endure. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)".