Dote

(verb.) shower with love; show excessive affection for; 'Grandmother dotes on her the twins'.

(verb.) be foolish or senile due to old age.

校对:特伦斯

• Because, up to this time, he seemed to dote upon her,' said Childers, taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I dote upon it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• What could I do, but kiss away her tears, and tell her how I doted on her, after that! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He doted on her boy--tenderly doted on him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She was quite disappointed that Mr. Sedley was not married; she was sure Amelia had said he was, and she doted so on little children. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She doted on her eldest son and her youngest girl (a child of six), whom others thought her two naughtiest children. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Miss Eliza Higgins, as it will be perceived, doted on superlatives. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• On an eel-pasty he particularly doted. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Oh, we shall never get to Brighton, said Fanny, who doted on donkey-riding. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She dotes on poetry, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Sallie says they are very intimate now, and the old man quite dotes on them. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He dotes upon the children to the last and remembers the commission he has undertaken for an absent friend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Hunchbacked, dwarfish, and doting, she was adorned like a barbarian queen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You could lead some doting fool; you might pin him to your apron. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Hold your tongue, you doting idiot! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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