Chinese 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" Chinese translation, "风轴系横轴" Chinese translation, "风轴系立轴" Chinese translation, "风逐渐停了" Chinese translation, "风烛" Chinese translation, "风烛泪" Chinese translation, "风烛闪烁" Chinese translation, "风主动补偿" Chinese translation, "风助船舶推进" Chinese translation, "风注候导引法" Chinese translation