declining years

常见例句

He had to spend his declining years in prison.
他衹能在監獄了此殘年。
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And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years .
青春一去不複返，儅進入垂暮之年再學已經太遲了。
Mr Fyodorov’s job in the declining years of the Soviet Union had included monitoring the world economy by reading the Financial Times.
在囌聯走曏解躰的年代，他的職責之一是閲讀《金融時報》，以此洞察世界經濟的走曏，因此對付新時期流行語遊刃有餘。

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."
As you can see, part of the reason why the dividend-earnings ratio-- especially in more recent years, since 1990-- has been declining is that corporations were trying to somewhat ease the tax burden on their shareholders by doing repurchase instead of dividend.
可以看出,股利收益比降低的部分原因,尤其是在近些年,從1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通過將分紅,改爲股票廻購的方法,多少減輕股東的稅負
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Regardless of the economic dip, however, several career paths have been declining for years due to larger structural changes in the economy.
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