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To treat someone with too much kindness and softness, so they are kept away from pain or difficulty. You take the hard bits out of life for them. A coddled child may never learn to wait, to lose, or to try again. It is care that has gone too far, and it is not a compliment. You can also coddle eggs — cook them very gently in hot water, not a hard boil — and that picture helps: you are keeping someone in warm water. The verb probably comes from caudle, an old warm drink given to sick people; it sits near old dialect words for coaxing and spoiling. Kind, then, but too kind.
嬌慣、過度呵護
組成Probably from caudle, a warm drink for sick people. Compare older dialect caddle (“to coax, spoil, fondle”) and cade.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coddleverb/ˈkɒd.əl/
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To treat gently or with great care.
- How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas, walled up in inaccessible castles, with a tutor and a library, guarded by cordons of sentinels, sermoners, old aunts, old women from the world without, and have nevertheless escaped from all these guardians, and astonished the world by their extravagance and their frolics?
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To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
- a coddled egg
- It [the guava fruit] bakes as well as a Pear, and it may be coddled, and it makes good Pies.
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To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
coddlenoun/ˈkɒd.əl/
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An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
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archaicAn effeminate person.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。