doddery

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Finally, the Obama campaign suggests that the 72-year-old Mr McCain is too doddery to understand the doohickeys that modern bankers use.
最后，奧巴馬的團(tuán)隊(duì)還暗示說麥凱恩已經(jīng)72歲了，身體狀況和年齡都令他不能理解現(xiàn)代銀行家所使用的迷人眼的手法了。
Domestic help funded from savings may keep a pensioner at home for a few years, but when he becomes too doddery to make a cup of tea, he will be coaxed into residential care.
國(guó)內(nèi)的救助基金也許會(huì)幫助基金領(lǐng)取者渡過在家生活的幾年時(shí)間。一旦他衰老到連沖一杯咖啡的力氣都沒有時(shí)，就會(huì)被哄進(jìn)養(yǎng)老院。
In the West, in Europe and America, the big economic story is a demographic one — a rapidly ageing population and a dwindling tax take with which to support our increasingly doddery citizens.
在西方，在歐洲和美國(guó)，人口統(tǒng)計(jì)最能說明問題，快速的老齡化趨勢(shì)，越來越少的稅收要支持越來越多的老人。

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