苟延残喘 meaning in English
linger on with one's last breath of life; be on one's last legs; linger on in a steadily worsening condition; drag out one's feeble existence; eke out a living; eke out a meagre existence; linger on in the last days of one's life; merely prolong one's death throes; merely prolong panting; prolong one's moribund [feeble] life; remain alive for a little while, prolonging one's feeble existence; try to prolong one's exhausted panting; win some time in one's deathbed struggle
Examples
- That past weeks had been an unexpected brief reprieve .
过去的几星期不过是出乎意外的苟延残喘。 - But mr. lea's being good enough to let them keep dragging on around here .
但是李老爷让他们在这里苟延残喘已经够好心了。 - He lingered in pain for a long time, and then died, bewailing his lost youth .
他在痛苦中苟延残喘了很长一个时期，最后痛惜他那失去的青春而死去。 - A few months earlier, martin had had her moved into a cambridge nursing home when she now floated dimly on the outer edge of life .
几个月前，马丁把她送到剑桥的私人疗养院去了，现在，她在那儿迷迷糊糊地苟延残喘。 - I feel like i ' m here to bring that baby on this earth
我苟延残喘只是想把我的孩子带到世上