dote

来自低地德语，糊涂，愚蠢。溺爱义可能来自词根don, 给予，词源同data, donate.

dote

dote: [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive fondness’ did not develop until the 15th century. Related forms include dotage [14], where the notion of ‘simple-mindedness due to senility’ (implicit in the verb from earliest times) has passed to simply ‘senility’; dotterel [15], the name of a sort of plover, supposedly so called because it was foolish enough to allow itself to get caught; and dotty [19], an alteration of Scottish English dottle ‘fool’, which was a derivative of dote.
=> dotage, dotterel, dotty

dote (v.)

c. 1200, "to be feeble-minded from age," from Middle Low German doten "be foolish," which is of unknown origin. Meaning "to be infatuated" is from late 15c. Related: Doted; dotes; doting.

1. They dote on their daughter.

他们把女儿视为掌上明珠.

2. And great souls , at one stroke, may do and dote.

和谐的韵律;而凭一张弓,真诚的/灵魂, 可以在勒索、也同时在溺爱.

3. Nature shall not grow old and dote.

大自然不会一日衰老.

4. I just dote on hot buttered scones!

我就是喜欢吃涂黄油的热司康饼!

5. A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on.

做父母所宠爱的,正是这种调皮捣蛋的孩子.