doddery
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈdɒd.ər.i]
- 美式音标 [ˈdɑː.dɚ.i]
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基本解释
- adj. 行動遲緩的，蹣跚的；衰老的（等於 doddered 或 doddering）
英汉例句
- Finally, the Obama campaign suggests that the 72-year-old Mr McCain is too doddery to understand the doohickeys that modern bankers use.
最後，奧巴馬的團隊還暗示說麥凱恩已經72嵗了，身躰狀況和年齡都令他不能理解現代銀行家所使用的迷人眼的手法了。 - Domestic help funded from savings may keep a pensioner at home for a few years, but when he becomes too doddery to make a cup of tea, he will be coaxed into residential care.
國內的救助基金也許會幫助基金領取者渡過在家生活的幾年時間。一旦他衰老到連沖一盃咖啡的力氣都沒有時，就會被哄進養老院。 - In the West, in Europe and America, the big economic story is a demographic one — a rapidly ageing population and a dwindling tax take with which to support our increasingly doddery citizens.
在西方，在歐洲和美國，人口統計最能說明問題，快速的老齡化趨勢，越來越少的稅收要支持越來越多的老人。 - In his public appearances he has seemed fit, if doddery and occasionally forgetful.
ECONOMIST: Fidel’s return is a mixed blessing for his brother - Doddery, clueless, fearful and divided—it could be Donald Rumsfeld talking about old Europe.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne - Despite all the hair-dye, Botox and revitalising drugs pumped into him by his doctors, Africa's oldest leader has appeared increasingly doddery of late.
ECONOMIST: Politics in Zimbabwe
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- weak and unable to walk in a normal way, usually because you are old
- Someone who is doddery walks in an unsteady way, especially because of old age.