[ gǒuyáncánchuǎn ] 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
Example Sentences:
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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
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Nothing but a temporary stay of execution for your kind 一事无成！只不过是延长你这种群苟延残喘的时间而已。
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He ' s still with us . barely 他还活着，苟延残喘而已
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Nixon himself survived politically for little more than two years 尼克松自己不过在政治舞台上苟延残喘了两年。
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Everyone was kind of groveling in darkness , and they all affected each other 大家在黑暗中苟延残喘互相影响。
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That he now breathes , and creeps upon earth , is owing all to me ! 如今他得以在这个世界上苟延残喘，全靠我的努力呢！ ”
