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拖延

tuō yán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

拖延 (tuō yán) means "to delay, procrastinate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 拖延 means

1. to delay
2. to put off
3. to procrastinate

The characters in 拖延

• 拖tuōto drag; to tow; to trail
• 延yánto prolong; to extend; to delay

Example sentences

• 我不能再拖延了。
  Wǒ bù néng zài tuōyán le.
  I have to stop procrastinating.
• 拖延是时间小偷。
  Procrastination is the thief of time.
• 请不要再拖延了！
  Stop procrastinating!
• 不要拖延去找工作的事。
  Bù yào tuōyán qù zhǎo gōngzuò de shì.
  Stop putting off finding a job.
• 我不像我以前那么拖延了。
  Wǒ bù xiàng wǒ yǐqián nàme tuōyán le.
  I don't procrastinate as much as I used to.
• 我不像我以前那幺拖延了。
  I don't procrastinate as much as I used to.

Words starting with 拖延

• 拖延症tuō yán zhèngprocrastination
• 拖延战术tuō yán zhàn shùdelaying tactics; deliberate procrastination
• 拖延时间tuō yán shí jiānto procrastinate; to stall for time; to filibuster

Where 拖延 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuán–tuō (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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