- ばんねん
- [晩年] one's later years [days]; one's declining years.▲live in the country late in life 晩年を田舎で過す.¶→晩年に晩年
(one's) last years* * *ばんねん【晩年】one's later years [days]; one's declining years.▲live in the country late in life 晩年を田舎で過す.
¶ → 晩年に* * *ばんねん【晩年】one's later [last, latter, declining] years; the latter part of one's life; 《文》 the close [evening] of one's life [days]; one's twilight years.●最晩年 《at [towards]》 the very end of one's life; very late in one's life.
●晩年に late in (one's) life; towards the end of one's life; in the evening of one's life; in one's closing [declining] years; in one's latter [later, last] days; 《文》 in the sunset of one's life; in one's twilight years.
●晩年のトルストイ Tolstoy in his later years
・晩年の作品 a late work.
●晩年を迎える approach the end of one's life; enter one's twilight years
・晩年を不遇に[幸せに]送る spend one's final years [the twilight of one's life] in obscurity [happily]
・晩年を飾るべき著書 a work to adorn the last phase of one's life.
●彼は晩年は愛犬と共に鎌倉で静かに暮らそうと思っていた. He planned to spend the last part of his life living peacefully with his dog in Kamakura.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.