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dot·age
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词根:dote
adj.doting 溺爱的,偏爱的
v.doting 宠爱(dote的ing形式)
vi.dote 溺爱;昏聩
vt.dote 溺爱
14世纪后期,“愚蠢的状态; 愚蠢的爱,迷恋”,字面意思是“沉迷的人的状态”,来自 dote(动词)+ -age。同样来自14世纪后期,表示“老年痴呆; 老年时期的虚弱或愚蠢的心智”。
衰老:老年智力衰退
同senile dementia
Middle English, from doten to dote
The first known use of dotage was in the 15th century
1 The victors, meanwhile, hung on to power long into their dotage.
与此同时,胜利者则沉浸于长期的掌权之中。
2 "I have no issue with ex-boxers, who have produced so much excitement and entertainment down the years, earning money in their dotage. It just doesn't make the spine tingle," said BBC Radio 5 Live's Costello.
3 Must be in his dotage.
肯定是老态龙钟了。
4 West Ham’s challenge is to show that last season wasn’t the kind of happy one-off that will make hardended Cockneys go all sentimental when they are in their dotage.
5 In my dotage, I find the effort and vim involved in five people trying to keep a joke afloat almost as charming as the joke itself.
6 He is in his dotage.
他老朽了.
7 I'm not in my dotage yet ; I can still drive to Gilly.
我还没到老糊涂的年纪呢, 我可以自己开车到吉利去.
8 It had a sleeping porch and a ship-like attic where I in my dotage would pull objects from a trunk and tell their histories to little ones.
9 When Franklin and Armfield retired, they passed easily into elite white society, achieving respectable dotage without a murmur.
10 Mr Trump's attitude "must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard", says its foreign ministry.
11 People above the age of 50 and/or in retirement aren’t worried about the cost of eggs now, but are petrified that they won’t have enough money to afford breakfast in their dotage.
12 The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.
13 Dotage is not the real love and favour is not protection.
溺爱不是真爱,偏袒不是保护。
14 I'm not in my dotage yet; I can still drive to gilly.
我还没到老糊涂的年纪呢,我可以自己开车到吉利去。
15 But instead of spending his retirement years sipping martinis and resting on that particular laurel, Giuliani has apparently decided that being a basement-level launderer of Russian disinformation is the best use of his dotage.
16 However, she said the North wouldn’t simply dismiss his words as a “nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage.”
17 Merlin fell in a dotage on the damsel.
墨林深深地爱上那少女。
18 If nothing else, it minimizes the social interaction of a concert, which is not to be sneezed at in the dotage of civil society and the age of “Bowling Alone.”
19 The elusive Smiley, found and asked what book he’s reading: “Oh my dear boy, don’t even ask. An old spy in dotage seeks the truth of ages.”
20 The Lavers were white sneakers that were not a white flag to the steady march of dotage.
1 衰老
decrepit senile senescent anile ageing senescence senility decrepitude caducity anility age fade geriatric effete aging dote bedridden bewhiskered epicene
2 老耄
5 溺爱
fond indulgent doting caressive dotingly fondness idolization maternalism idolize coddle cocker cosset dote mollycoddle cosher grandmother maternal fondle spoon-feed overprotective fondly overprotection doat pet overindulge overprotect slobber over
6 老弱