coddle

音標發(fā)音

I love to coddle babies. I have a little one of my own.
我喜歡悉心照料寶寶，我自己就有個小寶貝。
If governments want to see a blossoming of clean technology, therefore, they should use taxes to put a price on environmental externalities (such as carbon) rather than coddle pet technologies.
如果政府想要看到環(huán)保技術的出現，因此，他們應該利用稅收來給環(huán)境的外在性定價（如碳），而不是把重點放在得意的科技上。
University officials, defending this strategy, often imply that they are only responding to student demand. Discouraging words for those who believe that a college's job is to educate, not coddle.
校方人員爲此類行爲辯解時通常表示，他們衹是滿足學生的需求。對於那些認爲學校的職責是教育而非溺愛的人而言，這樣的話實在讓人氣餒。請給一指點！

Turns out American boards coddle underperforming CEOs--at least in comparison to those "no nonsense" Europeans.
FORBES: Magazine Article
Markets will want proof that the central banks will coddle them, regardless of inflation.
ECONOMIST: Have markets got what they wanted at last?
The Bank must continually choose whether to coddle bad governments, or to cut them off.
ECONOMIST: Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank