in your dotageOLD/NOT NEWin your old age 在某人衰老之年,在某人年老糊涂时
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in your dotage• What Lord Denning's Spectatorinterviewin his dotage had revealed was unguarded language.• Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days.• Appearance and character Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist, though unfortunately Dorothy was only paintedin her dotage.
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dotage• It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotagespent in permanentcontemplation of their childhood.• Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days.• And don't sign him into his dotage and whine about his getting old later.• For while Hare was playing out his dotage, the backroom was at work.• We all need to work at forgiveness and acceptance right into our dotage.• Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
Origindotage
(1300-1400)dote“to show the mental weakness of old age”((13-19 centuries))