他在乡村度过余生。 He spent the remainder of his life in the country.
他在一次撞车事故中头部受伤,要是还能存活下来,他们的余生一定是个植物人。 If he had survived the head injuries he got in the crash, he would have been a vegetable for the rest of his life.
他没能完全康复,于是不得不成了一名残疾者度过余生。 He never fully recovered, and had to spend the rest of his life as an invalid.