汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 行将就木
行将就木 (行將就木)
to approach one's coffin (idiom); with one foot in the grave
行将 will / 木 Refers to the coffin / Refers to people's life span is not long, and they are about to enter the coffin
行将将要;木指棺材。指人寿命已经不长,快要进棺材了。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

看,他们离世,我们也行将就木

See, they depart, and we go with them.

英国音乐呈现出感伤怀旧、暮气沉沉、行将就木的景象。

The British music scene is nostalgic, decrepit and moribund.

你那柄忠实的旧斧头已经行将就木了么?

Is the old faithful axe on its last leg?

如果你白发苍苍,行将就木而找不到快乐的话,不妨尝试童心!

If you're white-haired, dying and can not find happiness, then, try childlike innocence!

他们轻视生命,行将就木,他们自身也是中毒者。大地已经厌倦他们:让他们去罢!

Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them!

在一位老人行将就木的时候,将他对人世间最后的期冀斩断,以绝望之心在寂寞中远行,那是对生命的大不敬。

When an old man is dying in bed, if you cut off his last hope to the world and let him go away with a desperate heart in loneliness, that will be the greatest disrespect to life.

路边广告牌、公交和地铁自动扶梯上的广告海报、机场候机楼的广告,这类众所周知的户外广告形式曾被认为是广告行业行将就木的表现,仅此而已。

ROADSIDE billboards, posters on buses and subway escalators, ads in airport terminals-a type of publicity known as out-of-home advertising-used to be the dull end of the industry. No more.

皮埃尔睡醒了,跟在安娜·米哈伊洛夫娜身后从车厢里走出来,这时分他才想了想他要和行将就木的父亲见面的事情。

Rousing himself, Pierre followed Anna Mihalovna out of the carriage, and only then began to think of the interview with his dying father that awaited him.

而艺术家自个儿的身影在银幕里也早已行将就木了,他的头发、他的面部筋络和命脉,已经变成微有生命的物质最好的寄主。

The artist's own silhouette inside the painting is also not curable; his hair, his face, his muscles and his blood pressure, had already become the best shelter for the microorganisms.