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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，奥巴马的团队还暗示说麦凯恩已经72岁了，身体状况和年龄都令他不能理解现代银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.
国内的救助基金也许会帮助基金领取者渡过在家生活的几年时间。一旦他衰老到连冲一杯咖啡的力气都没有时，就会被哄进养老院。
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，在欧洲和美国，人口统计最能说明问题，快速的老龄化趋势，越来越少的税收要支持越来越多的老人。

In his public appearances he has seemed fit, if doddery and occasionally forgetful.
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