coddle尤指把鸡蛋在稍低于沸点的水中煮嫩,煮软,可以表示娇养;过分娇纵。
关于过分娇纵,还有这类表达:
①spoil
Mr Harvey, unable for once to do exactly as he wanted, sulked just like a spoiled child.
哈维先生只此一次不可以如愿以偿按他的意思做,就气鼓鼓的,像个宠坏了的孩子。
②dote on
He dotes on the new baby.
他对新生孩子很溺爱。
③cosplayset1
As a child, she has been spoiled and cosplayseted2.
作为一个孩子子,她一直被溺爱着。
④be indulgent to sb
He had been a strict father but was indulgent to/towards his grandchildren.
他曾是个严厉的爸爸,但对孙子孙女却非常娇惯。