Going to die:
行将就木，going to meet
wood (coffin)
明年的今天是你忌日 next year’s
today would be your anniversary
二十年后又是一条好汉 after twenty years I will be a good true man again (believe next life)
二十年后又是一条好汉 after twenty years I will be a good true man again (believe next life)
香消玉殒fragrant is gone, jade perish (normally the death of beauty)
半截入土 half body underneath earth
分香卖履 separating fragrant, selling shoes (曹操was a great leader in the time of three kingdoms. You may see him in the film Red Cliff. When he was going to die, he was worry about how his wives and concubines would live on, he separate his fragrant to them and telling them to learn making shoes. Later this four characters meant someone who worry about the life of his wife, after he died.) Image of曹操:
分香卖履 separating fragrant, selling shoes (曹操was a great leader in the time of three kingdoms. You may see him in the film Red Cliff. When he was going to die, he was worry about how his wives and concubines would live on, he separate his fragrant to them and telling them to learn making shoes. Later this four characters meant someone who worry about the life of his wife, after he died.) Image of曹操:
http://img1.178.com/newgame/201304/160685085192/160685282542.jpg
苟延残喘merely managed to keep the rest breath
属纩之际 a period of cotton (when someone is going to
die, people use a little bit of cotton testing his nose see if he have breath)
弥留之际 last time of
enduring illness
垂暮之年 the year of dusk
垂暮之年 the year of dusk
风烛残年 one’s rest year like candle in the
wind.
棺材瓤子 inner pulp of coffin
日薄西山 the sun dropping into west mountain
回光反照last
radiance of the setting sun
危若朝露 as danger as the morning dew
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