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风烛：被风吹的蜡烛，容易熄灭；残年：残余的岁月，指在世不太久。比喻人到了接近死亡的晚年。
[in one's declining years;at the flickering stage of one's life;have one foot in the grave;old and ailing is like a candle guttering in the wind] 风中之烛易灭。喻指老人的残年,不久于世 只这风烛残年,没的倒是眼泪倒回去,望肚子里流。——《儿女英雄传》
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