days are numbered

释义

1. sb's / sth's days are numbered

   （指人）死期不远了，得意的日子屈指可数了；（指物）用不了多久了，寿命不长了

   a person or thing will not continue to live, exist or be successful for much longer

   His days as leader of the party are numbered.他作为党的领袖的日子已屈指可数了。

电影里这样说 · 5 部

• Our days are numbered.Watchmen2009
• The Magisterium's days are numbered.The Golden Compass2007
• He'd call me at the hospital and say: "Son of a bitch, your days are numbered!"Birdman or2014
• I knew that my days were numbered.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• - His inn-keeping days are numbered. - I wouldn't say that.White Christmas1954

在完整场景里学

• 安然：房间里最聪明的人2005
  • 印度电厂成了废墟：imaginary profits（并未到来的利润）
  • 自己跟自己做买卖：both sides of the transaction（交易两边都占）
  • 追问报表当场失控：losing it（当众情绪崩了）

同一词条的短语

• all in a day's work
• any day
• carry the day
• day after day
• day by day
• day in, day out
• a day of reckoning
• from day one
• from day to day
• from one day to the next
• have had your day
• have seen better days