Dawdle ***

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to waste time; 

idle; 

trifle; loiter: [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].





　

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