The teacher told the students not to dawdle away their time.老师告诉学生们别混日子。The boss told the workers not to dawdle over their work.老板告知工人不要磨洋工。By then we had managed to dawdle away most of the afternoon.到那时我们已经消磨了大半个下午了。Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle.快点！没时间磨蹭了。