dotage
英 [ˈdəʊtɪdʒ]
美 [ˈdoʊtɪdʒ]
n. 年老体衰;年老昏聩
BNC.40752 / COCA.34799
习惯用语
n.
- be in your dotage
- 年老昏聩；年老糊涂
to be old and not always able to think clearly
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 年老体衰;年老昏聩
If someone isintheirdotage, they are very old and becoming weak.- Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee.
即便上了年纪，教授仍然是委员会的一员。 - ...spending his dotage in a riverside cottage.
在河畔小屋中度过他的晚年
- Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee.
英英释义
noun
- mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
双语例句
- Sometimes the kids talk to me as if I'm in my dotage!
有时候孩子们跟我说话的样子就像我是个老糊涂似的！ - And when you are old, you will wonder who is going to take care of you in your dotage and why you didn't have children and grandchildren to be with.
当你老了，你会问谁将照顾你的晚年，以及为什么别人儿孙绕膝，而你，没有。 - Birth rates are often low, however leaving fewer children to look after parents in their dotage and a smaller workforce to pay the taxes that also support them.
然而，出生率普遍很低，导致照料老人的子女减少，纳税供养老年人的劳动人口下降。 - Will you look after me in my dotage?
等我年迈体弱时你会照顾我吗？ - The old fool only has to hear the word` foreign 'to send him up in the air! I'm not in my dotage yet; I can still drive to Gilly.
老糊涂的听得带一个洋字就好像见了七世冤家！我还没到老糊涂的年纪呢，我可以自己开车到吉利去。 - From then on, he regarded his blindness as God's special dotage.
从那以后，他认为他的盲是上帝的特别溺爱。 - Must be in his dotage.
肯定是老态龙钟了。 - Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee.
即便上了年纪，教授仍然是委员会的一员。 - Ford would recover from the dotage of its erratic boss to be a great company once again.
福特将摆脱它那年老昏聩、反复无常的老板，再次成为一家伟大的企业。 - Merlin fell in a dotage on the damsel.
墨林深深地爱上那少女。