dote: [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive fondness’ did not develop until the 15th century. Related forms include dotage [14], where the notion of ‘simple-mindedness due to senility’ (implicit in the verb from earliest times) has passed to simply ‘senility’; dotterel [15], the name of a sort of plover, supposedly so called because it was foolish enough to allow itself to get caught; and dotty [19], an alteration of Scottish English dottle ‘fool’, which was a derivative of dote. => dotage, dotterel, dotty
dote (v.)
c. 1200, "to be feeble-minded from age," from Middle Low German doten "be foolish," which is of unknown origin. Meaning "to be infatuated" is from late 15c. Related: Doted; dotes; doting.
雙語例句
1. They dote on their daughter.
他們把女兒視為掌上明珠.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. And great souls , at one stroke, may do and dote.
和諧的韻律;而憑一張弓,真誠的/靈魂, 可以在勒索、也同時在溺愛.
來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學(xué)
3. Nature shall not grow old and dote.
大自然不會一日衰老.
來自辭典例句
4. I just dote on hot buttered scones!
我就是喜歡吃涂黃油的熱司康餅!
來自辭典例句
5. A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on.