dawdle



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–verb (used without object) 
1. to waste time
idle; 
trifleloiter: [Stop] dawdling and [help] me with these packages!  

2. to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily (慢吞吞地); saunter. (閒逛)

–verb (used with object) 
3. to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually fol. by away): He dawdled [away] the whole [morning].  

—Synonyms 
1, 2. See loiter. 3. fritter (浪費), putter (慢慢幹活), idle, trifle.

Loiter, dally, dawdle, idle imply moving or acting 
slowly, stopping for 
unimportant reasons, and in general 
wasting time

To loiter is to linger aimlessly: to loiter outside a [building]. 

To dally is to loiter indecisively or to 
delay as if free from care or 
responsibility: to dally on the way [home]. 

To dawdle is to 
saunter
stopping often, and taking a great deal of time, or to 
fritter
away time
working in a halfhearted way: 

to dawdle over a [task]. 

To idle is to move slowly and aimlessly
or to spend a great deal of time doing nothing: to idle away the [hours].


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All of which confirms that we are in the midst of verifiable human conduct. "The Best of Youth" 

[runs], though never [dawdles]


for an easy six hours, with barely a false note. Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, it was commissioned by Italian television; here it has already shown at Film Forum, 

in two three-hour [
chunks] 

chunk
(肉、木材等的) 大塊,厚片
【美】矮而壯實的人(或馬)
相當大的部分 (或數量)

and will play at Cinema Village before heading elsewhere across the country. There is absolutely no reason not to sacrifice a couple of your evenings for the sake of the Caratis, the lightly bound clan at the heart of Giordana’s epic—not, I should add, 

because they will offer you a pulsing escape from
 

your own family life but precisely because the rhythm of their pleasures and scarrings will, over time, come to seem like a consoling echo of your own. When a movie starts, as this one does, with a dad interrupting his son’s homework and asking if he can help move a TV set, you know you are on home [ground].


transience 
of the transience of [earthly] things.
ephemera 
The film's [ephemeral], semi-evasive lyricism ultimately works as a modest frame for Bardem's tender, deft portrait
vicissitude 
Gael García Bernal is an ideal choice to play Guevara, ranging effortlessly from delight to gravitas according to the vicissitude[s] of the character's experience. 
dormant
suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action
a dormant [volcano]
inert
dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move
an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]
sluggish 
cf. schlep
slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously
a sluggish [stream] [brain] 
torpid 
suspended physical powers, hibernate
[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 
flaccid flabby floppy
Languid








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