1.
The old man is old and ailing like a candle guttering in the wind.
老人已是风烛残年。
2.
He was dragging out his remaining years in decrepit health.
他正度着风烛残年。
3.
He looks as though he has one foot in the grave.
他看来已经风烛残年了。
4.
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。
5.
She had been old, sick, and desperate.
她却风烛残年、疾病缠身、孤立无援。
6.
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.
7.
True, there were some old women.
的确，有些妇人已经风烛残年。
8.
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。
9.
He's much too old to go skiing; he's got one foot in the grave!
他年纪太大了，不能去滑雪，他已是风烛残年了。
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。
11.
It was about half a century since we last met, and we were now both in our declining years.
掐指一算，分手快有半个世纪了，现在都已是风烛残年。
12.
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。
13.
O me! This sight of death is as a bell, that warns my old age to a sepulchre.
嗳哟！这些死的惨象就像惊心动魄的钟声，警告我这风烛残年，快要不久于人世了。
14.
The spirit of constitutional government flickered like a dying lamp, and within the last year or so, the light from that damp has disappeared entirely upon the continent of Europe.
宪制政府的理念如残烛之光摇曳不定，去年更是从欧洲大陆上彻底消失。
15.
Life is a candle flickering in the wind
人生乃闪于风前之烛
16.
A puff of wind blew out the candle.
一阵风吹熄了蜡烛。
17.
Candles spend fast in draught.
蜡烛在风口点得很快。
18.
The candle flickered in the wind.
蜡烛在风中闪烁不定。