They're a bunch of doddery old fools, and they were scared.

委员会是一批老得的傻瓜，被他吓住了。

Five years ago, having dozed through the rise of social media and smartphones, it was derided as a doddery has-been.

五年前，随着社交媒体和智能手机的兴起，它一直在沉默，因此被嘲笑为老态钟。

So later on when Nelson enters the story, Sir William Hamilton is treated by cartoonists and by satirists as a total joke, as a doddery old fool who doesn't know what's going on.

因此， 当纳尔逊后来出现在故事中时，威廉·汉密尔顿爵士被漫画家和讽刺作家描绘成一彻头彻尾的笑话，一晃晃的老傻瓜， 对周围发生的事情一无所知。

And then Smith, not the doddery old man that he's portrayed as, Smith goes, get the carpenter to sound the ship.

然后史密斯， 并不是他所表现的那位昏庸的老头，史密斯命令， 找木匠探查船体。

He thought he was sort of old and doddery and no longer with it and didn't understand the world.

他认为自己年老体衰，跟不上时代，无法理解这世界。