Nick:Hi everybody, this is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English."
Nick:大家好，我是Nick.
Brad:大家好，我是Brad
Nick:今天我們要講的東西是在中文中非常常見的一個動詞語,叫做"拖延癥"。我們大家都知道拖延癥什么意思，就是我們會拖拖拖，將事情拖到最后一分鐘才去做。我們英文叫做"Procrastination"這是一個名詞,這個發音還是有點難的，那我們還是請教一下Brad來讀一下這個單詞.Could you please pronounce this word for us?
Brad:Yeah, it's –pro, like professional, -cras, tin- like the tin, can. –ation.Procrastination
Nick:And then you put them together–procrastination.That's a little hard to pronounce. This is a noun, right?
Brad:Yeah
Nick:這個是一個名詞。還有一個動詞形式呢叫做"procrastinate",我們一般這個尾音會省略,也不是省略,就是把氣流放出來，但是不會把它放出嘴邊。是停留在嘴邊把它吞回去。就是"procrastinate"。簡單來說就是做這個口型。但是我就是不把這個音發出來,不把這個尾音發出來So, like I had an assignment a couple of days ago, and I think it's due next week. I won't do it until the last minute. That's what we called procrastination.
Brad:Exactly. You just wait until the last minute to do something. It's not because, maybe you don't wanna do it, maybe you don't mind doing it earlier,but just because you find distractions for yourself. It's just you don't do it (for different reasons). Keep getting distracted.
Nick:You can always find a lot of excuses, you know, stop you from doing it. Sounds like my life. I usually do that the date right before the due date.
Brad:Yeah, a lot of people do that in here
Nick:I guess you do that as well, right?
Brad:Haha, sadly.
Nick:So we can say like I can find a lot of ways to procrastinate it.
Brad:Um, hum.
Nick:那剛剛我們就是在說，尤其是在我們寫這個essay的時候啊，在寫due的時候-我們在留學的時候就經常把這個due叫做一個，就是要交了（的作業）。（作業）明天要交了我們可以簡讀為明天要due.雖然說這不是一個規范,但是用的比較廣泛,所以大家都這么說.那這個"Procrastination"就用來形容這種拖延癥。"哎呀你怎么拖延癥這么嚴重啊",大概就是這樣說。我們總會找到一個方法就是我不想寫essay，我總會找到一個方法去拖延,我可以看看書聽聽歌看看電影.I can always find a ways to procrastinate it.我總會找到我的這個其他方法去拖延該做的事情。那今天呢就是一個拖延癥的說法,希望大家已經學到了一點東西.So, I'll see you guys next time, bye!
Brad:再見！