MIWALKshaking slightly and walking with difficulty because of old age 〔因年老而〕步履蹒跚的
a doddering old man
一个步履蹒跚的老人
—dodder verb [intransitiveI]
Examples from the Corpus
doddering• The cabjourney downtown was an anguish of effort, of clogged and dodderingcrisis.• I was particularly amused by Anthony Dowell's cameo as the dodderingEmperor, complete with gildedwheelchair.• He pretended to his family and friends that his dodderinggait was due to old soccerinjuries.• Why add them, with their evocation of the dodderingloon, slumped, with listless ear-trumpet, over the board table?• I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old.• Couldn't get round that doddering old snail.