晩年

ばんねん

one's later years; final years (in life)

JLPT N1 Common word

Meanings

ブラウン氏しは晩年ばんねんに入はいっている。

Mr Brown is in the sunset of his life.
晩年ばんねんのトムはボストンで過すごした。

Tom spent the last years of his life in Boston.
彼女かのじょは悲かなしみを隠かくして晩年ばんねんを送おくった。

She spent her later life with a hidden sorrow.
彼かれは晩年ばんねんを自伝じでんを書かくことに献げた。

He devoted the last years of his life to writing his autobiography.
ベートーベンは晩年ばんねん耳みみが聞きこえなかった。

Beethoven was deaf in his late years.

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彼かれはピカソが晩年ばんねんに描えがいた絵えを手てに入いれた。

He obtained a picture which Picasso had painted in his later years.
晩年ばんねんになってそのけちは気前きまえがよくなった。

Late in life the miser learned to be generous with money.
この金時計きんどけいは私わたしにとって非常ひじょうに大切たいせつなものだ。母ははが晩年ばんねんに形見かたみとして私わたしにくれたものだから。

This gold watch is the apple of my eye. Mother gave it to me as a keep-sake in her later years.
アイザック・ニュートンは近代科学きんだいかがくの祖そとたびたび言いわれるが、彼かれの晩年ばんねんはもっぱら錬金術れんきんじゅつを研究けんきゅうしていた。

Isaac Newton is often referred to as the founder of modern science, but his final years were solely devoted to the study of alchemy.