doddering

1 They are doddering, even senile kings whose authority among the tribes extends only as far as the doors of the royal court.

他们步履蹒跚，连部族中权威的老国王也没有出过王宫的门。

2 At the same time, many Trump supporters see Mr. Biden as a doddering tax-and-spend political hack.

3 On May 17, it had taken him a doddering 1:49 to negotiate a mile, a time even slower than Seabiscuit’s.

4 There's gallows humor in Hagedorn's vision of doddering seniors as cokeheads and in her skewering of the literary types who beg the barely functioning Eleanor to appear in their reading series.

5 He presents him as a vulnerable old fool but does not overplay his feebleness, doddering gait and sudden seizures of the heart.

6 You know, just having some fun with the doddering old boomer.

7 I get up, sore all over, and start doddering barefoot for home.

8 The first season received criticism for portraying middle age as dreary—the protagonists grappled with death, decay, and a doddering cluelessness regarding social change.

9 His mother was doddering and frail.

他母亲步履蹒跚,身体孱弱.

10 The fiery performance, leavened by some humor at the close, aimed to rebut one of the main lines of Republican attack on Biden — the effort to portray the 81-year-old president as doddering and weak.

11 The Marquess of Tilbury’s doddering hand rose to his pocket handkerchief.

12 Meryl Streep, a winner for her portrayal of a doddering Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” made her victory look like a shock.

13 On this issue I have been casually slandering him for years for reasons involving political bias and having the memory of a doddering centenarian.

14 The trip was a remarkably gruelling one for any President to make, let alone an eighty-year-old often caricatured by his Republican foes as a doddering octogenarian.

15 Unhappily, that market segment also stayed away in their doddering droves.

16 In his opening statement, he referred to Rothman as “a doddering old fool” who had “developed extremely poor judgment.”

17 Writing is something you can do well into your doddering years and possibly improve at with age and experience.

18 That story was set in Spain, in the twilight of a doddering dictatorship.

19 They don’t reduce their characters to what have become antediluvian caricatures: wholly sweet, or sharp-tongued, or doddering or dotty.

20 Previously the 1960s paintings had been perceived as the childish scribbles or doddering fantasies of an old man warding off impotence.

以前，这些画于20世纪60年代的作品在人们心目中只是一个老人为驱散失意而做的孩子气的涂鸦或者糊涂的幻想。

1 步履不稳

dodder

2 步履蹒跚

hesitantly

3 蹒跚

staggering tipsy faltering tottery wabbly bedrid waddlingly totteringly stoiter stagger lurch hobble totter tipsiness titubation titubate dodder stram gone at the knees

4 蹒跚的

staggering tipsy faltering tottery wabbly bedrid gone at the knees

5 颤巍巍

wonky shakily

6 颤巍巍的

wonky

7 声音颤抖

tremulously quaver

8 蹒跚而行

stumble teeter lurch dodder