衰勢

Meanings

1. Noun

   downward tendency; decay; decline

• 幼少ようしょうの時とき、父ちちが死しんで、その弟おとうとが、時代じだいの衰勢すいせいと、自分じぶんの怠惰たいだとから、すっかり、身代しんだいをつぶしてしまったらしく、後のちに、筆墨ひつぼく行商人ぎょうしょうにんになって、私わたしの家いえへ、よく来きたが、くると、母ははに叱しかられて、よわっていた。

  When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.