Dotage
['dəʊtɪdʒ] or ['dotɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
校對:伊薇特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
(v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
(v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
校對:米利森特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Imbecility, senility, second childhood.
錄入:史黛西
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Imbecility, senility, fatuity, dementedness
ANT:Intelligence, acuteness, judgment, penetration, vigor
艾弗里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The horror of Pitt Crawley may be imagined, as these reports of his father's dotage reached the most exemplary and correct of gentlemen. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
整理:贾丝廷