| 词汇 | procrastinate |
| 词源 | procrastinate [M16th] To procrastinate is to put off doing something. The Latin word it comes from, procrastinare, had the sense ‘to put off till the morning’, with the cras part meaning ‘tomorrow’. The saying procrastination is the thief of time originates in the poem Night Thoughts (1742–45) by Edward Young: ‘Procrastination is the Thief of Time; / Year after year it steals, till all are fled.’ |
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