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。
chinafanyi.com
And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years .
青春一去不復返，當進入垂暮之年再學已經(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，他的職責之一是閱讀《金融時報》，以此洞察世界經(jīng)濟的走向，因此對付新時期流行語游刃有余。

"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,公司想通過將分紅,改為股票回購的方法,多少減輕股東的稅負
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選

Regardless of the economic dip, however, several career paths have been declining for years due to larger structural changes in the economy.
FORBES: Jobs Outlook: Careers Headed For The Trash Pile