coddle
coddle 英 [ˈkɒdl] 美 [ˈkɑdl]
vt. 娇养；溺爱（等于mollycoddle）；用文火煮
进行时:coddling 过去式:coddled 过去分词:coddled 第三人称单数:coddles 名词复数:coddles
- While it is okay for parents to coddle, spoil, or pamper a young child, it’s a little unnerving when parents coddle, or pamper adult children. And downright weird when adult children wear Pampers.
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- vt. 娇养；溺爱（等于mollycoddle）；用文火煮
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1. I love to coddle babies. I have a little one of my own.
我喜欢悉心照料宝宝，我自己就有个小宝贝。
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2. If we coddle them when they’re younger, what happens when they get into the real world?
孩子们小的时候我们就娇惯他们，等他们步入社会了怎么办？
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3. Clinton said he would not "coddle the butchers of Beijing" but negotiated China's entry into the W.
克林顿说他不会“放纵北京的屠夫”，但却与中国谈判加入世贸。
- coddle (v.) c. 1600, "boil gently," probably from caudle (n.) "warm drink for invalids" (c. 1300), from Anglo-French caudel (c. 1300), ultimately from Latin calidium "warm drink, warm wine and water," neuter of calidus "hot," from calere "be warm" (from PIE root *kele- (1) "warm").
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