fag end

基本解釋

In the fag-end of its 12-year reign, Labour has lost even core supporters.
那些最堅(jiān)定的支持者也在它12年統(tǒng)治生涯即將結(jié)束的時(shí)候，離它而去。
With the United States at the fag-end of a disastrous presidency, Brazil assembled 33 countries from across the Americas to discuss a host of issues ranging from defence to the economic slowdown.
正當(dāng)美國(guó)在為布什政府的災(zāi)難性任期收拾殘局之時(shí)，巴西聚集了美洲地區(qū)的33個(gè)國(guó)家，一同商討著從國(guó)防到經(jīng)濟(jì)減慢的諸多問題。
Mr Brown needed to distinguish himself from his predecessor, impress a jaundiced electorate and do it in hurry—or face being seen as a fag-end failure.
布朗先生需要表現(xiàn)出他與前任者的不同，讓心懷偏見的選民刮目相看，并速戰(zhàn)速?zèng)Q——否則，他就會(huì)被人民看做是布萊爾失敗后的余灰。
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With a grand tobacco settlement now a burnt-out fag-end in Washington, the struggle has returned to the courts—and the first big class-action lawsuit by smokers has come to trial.
ECONOMIST: The tobacco wars

If you refer to the fag end of something, you mean the last part of it, especially when you consider this part boring or unimportant.