Refers to a woman's beauty fading with age; her youthful appearance withering away.
她年轻时是远近闻名的美人，如今岁月流逝，也免不了菊老荷枯的境况。
She was a renowned beauty in her youth, but with the passage of time, she too could not escape the fate of her beauty fading like withered chrysanthemums and dried-up lotuses.
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Ancient
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