declining years

基本解释

He had to spend his declining years in prison.
他只能在监狱了此残年。
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And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years .
青春一去不复返，当进入垂暮之年再学已经太迟了。
Mr Fyodorov’s job in the declining years of the Soviet Union had included monitoring the world economy by reading the Financial Times.
在苏联走向解体的年代，他的职责之一是阅读《金融时报》，以此洞察世界经济的走向，因此对付新时期流行语游刃有余。

"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,从1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通过将分红,改为股票回购的方法,多少减轻股东的税负
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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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