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doting + noun
形容词用法，通常放在名词前，表示“十分宠爱、偏爱的”。
She is a doting mother.
她是一位溺爱孩子的母亲。
溺爱的；偏爱的
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溺爱的；偏爱的
extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent
She is a doting mother.
她是一位溺爱孩子的母亲。
充满爱意和关怀的。
Characterized by giving love and affection.
表现出智力衰退的,尤指老年时发生的。
Showing a decline of mental faculties, especially when it occurs in old age.
My doting grandfather still sends me a birthday card every year.
我那溺爱我的爷爷每年仍然给我寄生日贺卡。
She gave her puppy a doting smile before leaving for work.
她上班前给小狗一个宠爱的微笑。
The doting parents clapped proudly at every moment of the school concert.
那对宠爱孩子的父母在学校音乐会的每一个时刻都骄傲地鼓掌。
形容词用法，通常放在名词前，表示“十分宠爱、偏爱的”。
She is a doting mother.
她是一位溺爱孩子的母亲。
动词 dote on 的现在分词形式，也可用于分词短语，如 Doting on her children, she ...
He is doting on his grandchildren.
他正溺爱着自己的孙子孙女。
Not this
She is doting her youngest son.
Use this
She is doting on her youngest son.
动词 dote 是不及物动词，接宾语时必须用介词 on（dote on somebody），不能说 dote somebody。这里用进行时同样要保留 on。受汉语“溺爱”可带宾语的影响，学习者容易漏掉 on。
Not this
He is a dotting father.
Use this
He is a doting father.
dote 以不发音的 e 结尾，加 -ing 时先去掉 e：dote → doting；而 dot 是重读闭音节，加 -ing 时要双写 t：dot → dotting。dotting 意为“打点的”，不是“溺爱的”，注意拼写区别。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
过分溺爱孩子的父母
Her doting parents let her stay up as late as she wanted.
她过分溺爱孩子的父母让她想多晚睡就多晚睡。
溺爱孩子的父亲
A doting father drove three hours just to watch his son's recital.
一位溺爱孩子的父亲开了三小时车去看儿子的独奏会。
溺爱孩子的母亲
The doting mother bought her daughter a new coat every season.
那位溺爱孩子的母亲每个季节都给女儿买一件新外套。
溺爱孙辈的祖父母
The doting grandparents could not resist the baby's smile.
溺爱孙辈的祖父母无法抗拒婴儿的笑容。
对妻子宠爱有加的丈夫
Her doting husband drove her to work in the rain.
她那宠爱有加的丈夫冒雨开车送她上班。
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助记：doting 里有 dot（点），长辈的爱‘点点滴滴’都倾注在孩子身上，便成了溺爱。
语域：neutral 常见场景：describing parents or grandparents、literary or narrative writing doting 作形容词时多表示“过分宠爱、溺爱”，常见于描述父母长辈对子女的疼爱，比较常见于文学作品或较正式的书面表达；口语中也能听到，但带明显感情色彩。通常不含强烈贬义，需结合上下文判断。
floating, voting, coating, and boating rhyme with doting (all share stressed /əʊ/ + t + ɪŋ). Dotting and tooting look similar in spelling but sound different: dotting has a short /ɒ/ vowel (the double t shortens the 'o') and tooting has long /uː/ (as in 'toot').
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.