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dotage

/doh-tij/US // ˈdoʊ tɪdʒ //UK // (ˈdəʊtɪdʒ) //

笼统的说,笼统,笼统的说法,笼统地讲

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
    • : excessive fondness; foolish affection.

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Examples

  • Many veteran lefties have been effective with the kind of stuff Lester has shown in Florida — 86-to-90 mph fastballs and cutters on hitters’ hands, plus a big curve and a change he seems to have saved for his dotage.

  • Being politically astute, even in her dotage, Baroness Thatcher was aware what contention that could create.

  • In An Accidental Sportswriter, he revisits Talese, now in his elegant, legend-buffing dotage.

  • To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

  • England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.

  • The old man, whose dull face seemed to indicate dotage, half raised himself at the sound of the stranger's voice.

  • But when Europe befools itself, in its dotage, with republican attire, we lads have a right to laugh.

  • On the following day he fell into a state of absolute dotage and insensibility, and never rose from his arm-chair again.