We have to look after grandfather now he 's in his dotage .
祖父已经年迈昏愦,我们必须照顾他。
Girls require dowries and , once married , are expected to be loyal to a husband 's family and are therefore unable to support their own parents in their dotage .
而养女儿得给她置办嫁妆,等她结婚后就成了夫家的人,所以在自己的父母年老时也出不了什么力。
Yet maybe this is the future : 10 years from now everyone will go on working into their dotage because they won 't be able to afford to retire .
但未来或许就是这样的:今后10年,人人都将工作到老朽之年,因为他们无法负担退休的成本。
Japan , then , could plausibly glide for decades into a splendidly comfortable even enviable dotage .
由此,日本很有可能在未来数十年慢慢进入一种极其安逸甚至令人眼红的老年状态。
The elder bo , who died in 2007 , continued to help mr. jiang sideline rivals into his dotage .
薄一波在余生中继续协助江扫除竞争对手,直至2007年逝世。
But the aim-an economy more reliant on domestic consumption-is made harder to achieve by an ageing population , worried about its health and security in its dotage .
但转换的目标(更依赖内需的经济体制)在处处担忧身心健康与人身安全的老龄化社会很难达到。
My only hope nowadays is that in my dotage I 've got all of this wrong , and that in president obama 's second term , or with mitt romney 's or newt gingrich 's first , we 'll see everything in this country change for the better .