EP93 拖延 Procrastinate

 Chinese 101: Talk about a bad habit of procrastinate

 

Grammar: “还没” as emphasize

 

Language Tips:Why Procrastinators Procrastinate & How to deal with it

 

Story of the Day:Fix the root cause 对症下药 duì zhèng xià yào 

 

Dialogue:

 

A:我们去逛街吧!

 

wǒ men qù guàng jiē ba !

 

Let’s go shopping!

 

B:不行,我论文还没有写完。

 

bú xíng,wǒ lùn wén hái méi yǒu xiě wán。

 

I can’t, I haven’t finish my paper.

 

A:你论文还没写完?后天就是截止日期了啊。

 

nǐ lùnwén háiméi xiě wán?hòu tiān jiùshì jiézhǐ rìqī le ā。

 

You still haven't finished your paper? The day after tomorrow is the deadline.

 

B:没办法,我习惯拖延了,不到最后一刻不会动笔。

 

méi bàn fǎ ,wǒ xí guàn tuō yán le ,bú dào zuì hòu yī kè bú huì dòng bǐ。

 

No way to help, I’m used to procrastinate, I can never write anything until the last minute. 

 

A:好吧,抓紧时间。

 

hǎo ba,zhuā jǐn shí jiān。

 

Okay, seize your time.

 

Words & expressions:

 

【逛街】guàng jiē:shopping

 

【论文】lùn wén: essay, paper

 

【后天】hòu tiān: the day after tomorrow

 

【截止】jié zhǐ: end; closure; close, deadline

 

【日期】rì qī: date

 

【没办法】méi bàn fǎ: no way out, no way to help

 

【习惯】xí guàn: habit; custom; convention

 

【拖延】tuō yán: delay; procrastinate; put off

 

【最后一刻】zuì hòu yī kè: last minute

 

【动笔】dòng bǐ: take up the pen; start writing

 

【抓紧】zhuā jǐn: firmly grasp