So how do you overcome the intrinsic urge to put off so many tasks?

那们要如何克服拖延任务的内在冲动呢？

Or maybe they want to put off getting a real job.

或者他们想推迟正工作的时间。

I'm going to have to put that off until tomorrow I'm afraid.

恐怕得推到明天做了。

With big topics, you're more likely to put off starting.

对于大的话题，你更有可能推迟开始。

One which is very similar to " put off" .

有一个词和“put off”很像。

Do you want to put it off then?

那你想推迟吗？

Carroll said one problem is that it is normal to put off dealing with death.

卡罗尔表示，原因之一就人们通常很忌讳死亡这一话题。

I kept just trying to put it off and deal with it.

一直在试着把它放在一边，然后去理它。

Nor did he try to put anything off-limits.

他也没有对任何事情作出限制。

The pandemic, Davidson said, led many young people to put off having children.

戴维森说，新冠疫情导致许多年轻人推迟生孩子。

Well, Monday morning came, and I was in such a fuss! I was so afraid, you know, that something would happen to put it off, and then I should have gone quite distracted.

唔，到了星期一早上，慌张得要命。你知道，怕会发生什么意外，把婚期耽搁了，那可要发狂了。

I was very nervous and wanted to put it off until another day, but couldn't.

非常紧张，想推迟到其他时间来玩，但不能。

Besides, I'm not sure I want to put him off, even without the title.

再说，可能也不想拖延，他没有爵位也无所谓。

The CV's number-one task is not to put the reader off.

简历的首要任务不要让读者反感。

What if I want to put off my flight?

如果想推迟的航班怎么办？

If you're trying to impress someone romantically you might want to avoid the terms " hankie-pankie" (23%) or " nookie" (21%), as they are both highly likely to put a potential partner off.

如果你想给某人留下浪漫的印象，你可能要避免使用“hankie-pankie”(23%)或“nookie”(21%)这两个词，因为它们都极有可能让潜在的伴侣反感。

While franchisees were right to put off remodeling to ensure they weren't distracted from efficiently running their restaurants, the domestic business was in dire need of a significant revamp, he says.

虽然特许经营商推迟改造正确的，以确保他们不会从高效经营餐厅上分心，但国内业务急需进行重大改革。

The first debt in the history of man is the debt of nature, and the first instinct is to put off the payment of it to the last moment.

人类在历史上第一笔欠债，就对大自然欠下的，人类的第一天性就拖到最后一刻才还债。

Chief cook: I put the blanket on the pan first , and then I switched off the stove and used a fixed foam extinguisher to put it off .

人先用灭火毯盖在锅上。然后关了炉子，又用固定泡沫灭火器将火扑灭。

I imagined that my arrival had taken them by surprise, and Mrs.Strickland had let me come in only because she had forgotten to put me off.

猜想到这里来一定很出他们意料之外，思特里克兰德太太只忘记同另外约会日子才不得不让进来。