dotage
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
dote + -age,源自中古英語 doten (「溺愛;老糊塗」)。
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
- 衰老,老糊塗
- 近義詞: senility
- 1841, Charles Dickens, 章號 1, 出自 The Old Curiosity Shop:
- "More care!" said the old man. […] There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 溺愛,嬌慣
- 胡話
近義詞[編輯]
- (老糊塗): second childhood
異序詞[編輯]
中古英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
發音[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
dotage (不可數) (Late Middle English)
派生語彙[編輯]
- 英語: dotage
參考資料[編輯]
- 「dōtāǧe, n.」 in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.