1·He enjoyed writing his memoirs in his declining years.
在年老体弱的岁月里，他专注于写回忆录。
2·This diary is a faithful record of his declining years.
这本日记是他晚年生活的实录。
3·That old lady wants to spend her declining years by the sea.
那位老太太想在海边度过她的晚年。
4·And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years.
青春一去不复返，当进入垂暮之年再学已经太迟了。
5·Tall, handsome and dignified, he cut an imposing figure, even in his declining years.
高高的个字，长相英俊，容貌端庄，即便到了晚年，也保持着仪表堂堂的风度。
6·It was about half a century since we last met, and we were now both in our declining years.
掐指一算，分手快半个世纪了，现在都已是风烛残年。
7·I found my new life to be a kind of metaphor for my declining years-one might say a slow dying.
我发现我的新生活就像一种象征，在颓废的生活中我将慢慢死去。
8·He married a number of wives in his declining years, and his life on the whole was by modern standards unedifying.
他晚年娶了好几个妻子，按照现代的标准，他的生活总的来说毫无教益。
9·Youth will soon be gone never to return. And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years.
少年是一去不复返的，等到精力衰时，努力做学问也来不及了。
10·Declining Years "image, the archetype of Zhang Ailing's story character, appeared first in her prose Declining Years, which was her juvenilia."
“迟暮”意象是张爱玲小说人物的原型。它最早出现在作者少年时的散文习作《迟暮》中。