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dotage n.1.老耄,老糊涂。2.溺愛,過分的偏愛。短語和例子b...

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For if he shall begin to fall into dotage , perspiration and nutrition and imagination and appetite , and whatever else there is of the kind , will not fail ; but the power of making use of ourselves , and filling up the measure of our duty , and clearly separating all appearances , and considering whether a man should now depart from life , and whatever else of the kind absolutely requires a disciplined reason , all this is already extinguished 如果一個人開始走向衰老,他的排汗、營養、想象力和胃口以及其它類似的方面都還不會有問題;但自我奮斗的力量,高遠而強烈的責任感,對所有表象的清晰洞察,對一個人是否應該離開人世的思考,以及其它類似的絕對需要受過訓練的理性參與的活動,已然銷聲匿跡。

And everything he saidfor instance , that they must wait for provisions , or that the men had no bootsall was so simple ; while everything they proposed was so complicated and so clever , that it was obvious to them that he was stupid and in his dotage , while they were military officers of genius , without authority to take the lead 但是,所有這一切,他們早都從他那里聽到過了。他所說的一切:例如,需要等待給養,士兵們沒有靴子,都是如此簡單,而他們的建議才是復雜而明智的,在他們看來是顯而易見的他已經又老又糊涂,而他們卻是沒有當權的天才統帥。

Father won ' t see any of us until we ' ve had tea . silly old fool ! must be in his dotage (我們喝完茶之前父親誰也不見。老糊涂!肯定是老態龍鐘了。 )

He has dotage because of old age 他因年老而糊里糊涂。

He is in his dotage . 他老朽了。

I'm not in my dotage yet; i can still drive to gilly . 我還沒到老糊涂的年紀呢,我可以自己開車到吉利去。