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English translation for "风烛残年"

[ fēngzhúcánnián ] 
the declining age is like a candle in the wind.; old and ailing like a candle guttering in the wind.; short time left for aged people; the decline of life; when life is burning low (in one) like the candle before the wind

Related Translations:
已是风烛残年:  have one foot in the grave
Example Sentences:
1.He looks as though he has one foot in the grave .
他看来已风烛残年了。
2.He looks as though he has one foot in the grave .
他看来已经风烛残年了。
3.True, there were some old women .
的确,有些妇人已经风烛残年
4.Emerson at the extreme end of his life turned soft .
爱默生在风烛残年时心境趋于平和。
5.I have a b.a., a debt of four thousand dollars, and a dying mother .
我有文学士学位,有四千块的债务,还有个风烛残年的母亲。
6.It was a decaying building in a dying neighborhood, inhabited, you felt, only by doomed old men and derelict young men .
那是一幢破旧的楼房,四邻一片死气沉沉,使你感到只有风烛残年的老人和走投无路的年轻人才住在那里。
7.My 90 - year old uncle has one foot in the grave
我90岁的叔父已是风烛残年
8.Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived
试著了解我已是风烛残年,来日可数。
9.He is a sick old man who poses no threat to the government
他已风烛残年,对政府不能构成威胁。
10.Of course , now i ' m too old to be much of a fisherman
当然,风烛残年的我,已经无法成为一个出色蝇钓者了。
Similar Words:
"风轴系" English translation, "风轴系横轴" English translation, "风轴系立轴" English translation, "风逐渐停了" English translation, "风烛" English translation, "风烛泪" English translation, "风烛闪烁" English translation, "风主动补偿" English translation, "风助船舶推进" English translation, "风注候导引法" English translation