be getting closer and closer to the coffin—be fast approaching death be fast approaching death have one foot in the grave
The critical patient is dying and we can do nothing about it.
那位重病患者已行将就木,无药可救了。
—— 给力词典精选He that he is drawing nearer theand seems to linger around the memory the past.
他觉得自己行将就木,生活就像是徘徊在旧日回忆中的图画。
—— 给力词典精选