Dotage

(noun.) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.

校对:伊薇特

• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The horror of Pitt Crawley may be imagined, as these reports of his father's dotage reached the most exemplary and correct of gentlemen. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

整理:贾丝廷