1. 定义：doddering是一个形容词，意思是老态龙钟的、摇摇晃晃的、步履蹒跚的；也可以作为动词，意思是颤抖、摇晃。
2. 词源：doddering来源于中古英语dodderen，表示走路蹒跚，后来发展成摇晃、颤抖的意思。
3. 用法：doddering可以用来描述年迈的人、生病的人或者精神状态不稳定的人。作为动词，常常用来描述物体摇晃、颤抖的状态。
4. 反义词：steady（稳定的、平稳的）
以下是5个中英例句：
1. Grandpa is getting a bit doddering – we need to keep an eye on him.
（爷爷开始有点老态龙钟了，我们需要照顾他。）
2. The old man walked down the street, doddering and leaning heavily on his cane.
（老人一边仰仗拐杖，一边摇摇晃晃地走在街上。）
3. She looked at the photo of her younger self and laughed at the doddering girl in the picture.
（她看着照片里年轻的自己，笑着看着那个步履蹒跚的女孩。）
4. The old house stood on the hill, its doddering walls threatening to collapse at any moment.
（那座老房子矗立在山顶上，颤抖的墙壁随时可能倒塌。）
5. The doddering old car rattled down the road, strange noises and shaking violently.
（那辆摇摇晃晃的老爷车嘎吱作响地开过马路，发出奇怪的声音，猛烈地颤抖着。）
doddering的意思是摇晃不稳的，衰老的，虚弱的。读音为[dod-er-ing]。
例句：
1. He was a doddering old man who could barely walk on his own.
他是一个摇摇晃晃的老人，几乎无法自行行走。
2. She had to care for her doddering grandmother who suffered from dementia.
她不得不照顾患老年痴呆症的摇摇晃晃的祖母。
3. The doddering old building was in desperate need of repair.
这座摇摇晃晃的老建筑亟需修缮。
doddering在中文中有”摇晃、变衰弱”的意思，其中文解释还有”震颤的”的意思，单词读音音标为[‘dɔdәriŋ]，在英语中以形容词出现较多，在《英语汉语大辞典》中，共找到98个与doddering相关的例句。
1.摇晃
例句:Previously the 1960s paintings had been perceived as the childish scribbles or doddering fantasies of an old man warding off impotence. (以前，这些画于20世纪xx年代的作品在人们心目中只是一个老人为驱散失意而做的孩子气的涂鸦或者糊涂的幻想。)
2.变衰弱
例句:Gadaffi overthrew the last Senoussi, the doddering Ibn Idris, in 1969. (卡扎菲于xx年推翻了最后一个赛怒西部族领导，老态龙钟的伊本。易德立斯。)
3.震颤的
例句:Libya would return to pre-Gadaffi days when it was ruled by a British-managed figurehead king, the doddering Ibn Idris. (利比亚可能回到卡扎菲以前的时代，当时她是由英国管理的傀儡国王-步履蹒跚的伊本·伊德里斯统治。)
4.衰迈的、震颤的
例句:He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling. (翻译:他左摇右摆，像醉汉踉跄着，努力不让自己摔倒。)
1. Libya would return to pre-Gadaffi days when it was ruled by a British-managed figurehead king, the doddering Ibn Idris. (翻译:利比亚可能回到卡扎菲以前的时代，当时她是由英国管理的傀儡国王-步履蹒跚的伊本·伊德里斯统治。)
2. He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling. (翻译:他左摇右摆，像醉汉踉跄着，努力不让自己摔倒。)
3. As if I were a doddering old relic. (翻译:使我不再像那个蹒跚的老太婆。)
4. Ross finished the doddering this love, then sank Nachuan priceless jewelry, it takes a long love Jack and this submarine. (翻译:老态龙钟的罗丝讲完这段爱情后，把那串价值连城的珠宝沉入海底，让它陪着杰克和这段爱情长眠海底。)
5. Since then the fire has found all sorts of fuel, from the Arab street’s desire for democracy to its revulsion at doddering kleptocrats. (翻译:此后，这把火点燃了各种情绪，既有伯社区对的渴求，也包括对腐朽统治者的厌恶。)
doddering作为形容词、动词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有0、dodder/1、i/s、dodderings等。
