coddle

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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(gè)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(shù)的出現(xiàn)，因此，他們應(yīng)該利用稅收來給環(huán)境的外在性定價(jià)（如碳），而不是把重點(diǎn)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.
校方人員為此類行為辯解時(shí)通常表示，他們只是滿足學(xué)生的需求。對于那些認(rèn)為學(xué)校的職責(zé)是教育而非溺愛的人而言，這樣的話實(shí)在讓人氣餒。請給一指點(diǎn)！

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