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词汇 dodderer
释义 dodderer
noun[ C ]
mainly UKuk /ˈdɒd.ər.ər/ us /ˈdɑː.dɚ.ɚ/
someone who moves around slowly and weakly, as if they might fall, especially because of being very old: (尤指因为年老而)蹒跚行走的人
When he talks to sixth-formers, he starts off by saying that they probably think he's a dusty old dodderer.当他与中学六年级的学生交谈时,他一开始就说,他们可能认为他是一个满身灰尘、颤颤巍巍的老头。
They portrayed him as an old dodderer who had lost his memory.
The Prince's tutor is a sweet-tempered old dodderer.
Lear makes his entrance hobbling painfully forward on a stick like some senile and decrepit dodderer.
Will we become a nation of dodderers? That depends on how we age.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
blunder
bumble
dodder
doddery
falter
favour
halting
inflexibly
limp
lollop
lumber
lumpily
lurch
teeter
toddle
toil
totter
tottering
trundle
tumble
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