風(fēng)燭殘年的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
wind/candle/left/year
declining years like candles wavering in the wind

[解釋]
風(fēng)燭：風(fēng)中的燭火，隨時(shí)可能熄滅。比喻臨近死亡的晚年。

[Explanation]
in one’s declining years

[例子]
雖然已經(jīng)到了風(fēng)燭殘年，這位老人仍然想把他的自傳完成。

[Example]
In spite of reaching his declining years, the old man still wanted to finish his autobiography.

[英語(yǔ)等價(jià)詞]
to have one foot in the grave

參考例句：
  • To have one foot in the grave
    風(fēng)燭殘年
  • The old man is old and ailing like a candle guttering in the wind.
    老人已是風(fēng)燭殘年。
  • He was dragging out his remaining years in decrepit health.
    他正度著風(fēng)燭殘年。
  • It was a decaying building in a dying neighborhood, inhabited, you felt, only by doomed old men and derelict young men
    那是一幢破舊的樓房，四鄰一片死氣沉沉，使你感到只有風(fēng)燭殘年的老人和走投無(wú)路的年輕人才住在那里。

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