declining years

基本解釋

He had to spend his declining years in prison.
他只能在監(jiān)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 .
青春一去不復(fù)返，當(dāng)進(jìn)入垂暮之年再學(xué)已經(jīng)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.
在蘇聯(lián)走向解體的年代，他的職責(zé)之一是閱讀《金融時(shí)報(bào)》，以此洞察世界經(jīng)濟(jì)的走向，因此對(duì)付新時(shí)期流行語(yǔ)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,從1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通過(guò)將分紅,改為股票回購(gòu)的方法,多少減輕股東的稅負(fù)
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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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