时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


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 “老糊涂”怎么说


家中有老人的朋友,聚在一起时常笑谈“赡养老人有时像带小孩”。这话很有道理,比如说听爷爷奶奶讲故事,明明听了N遍你还得装作满腔热情、满脸好奇,哄着他们开心。
英语中“溺爱小孩”用dote表达,有趣的是,由dote衍生而来名词dotage表示“老糊涂”。看来,“溺爱、娇惯”还真得与“年老智衰”有关系呢。 据词源记载,dote最初来源于荷兰语doten(愚蠢的),13世纪dote作为动词进入英语词汇,表示“头脑糊涂,行为愚蠢甚至疯颠”;同时期,人们开始把“糊涂”的普遍意专用于老人身上(尤指因年事过高,记忆力、智力衰退);在现代,dote更常用来形容“家长对小孩或人对宠物,不讲原则的溺爱”。 Dotage表示“老人糊涂”是沿用了dote的第二层涵意。举个例子,Grandpa needs full-time 1 care, now that he's in dotage(爷爷年纪大了,需要得到精心照顾)。另外,以dote为词根,另一相应的名词形式dotard更侧重于强调“年老智衰的人”,而dotage表示“年老智衰的状态”。

adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
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