When we're procrastinating, many of us think we're being lazy or we lack self-discipline or motivation, Rettig says.

Rettig说道，当我们在拖延的时候，许多人认为我们是在偷懒或者我们缺乏自律或动力。

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When people do this we call it ‘procrastinating’ but when cats do it we call it ‘ displacement behavior‘

人若如此被称为“拖延”，但猫若如此就被叫做……“换位行为”。

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Many of us lose time by engaging in unnecessary actions and by procrastinating; that is to say, we procrastinate when it comes to the important things we need to do today.

我们之中的许多人因为花时间在不必要的事情上加上拖拖拉拉而浪费了时间，也就是说，我们拖延了那部分原本需要花在当下更重要的事情上的时间。

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In another, you would manoeuvre yourself around the congressional chamber in order to prevent procrastinating legislators from going home early when they still have a budget deficit to fix.

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She would always be able to find a patch of water, she told herself, but even when she was studying the rivers and lakes in the road atlas she knew she was procrastinating.

NEWYORKER: Alone