Translation Says "Already Dead"?

[FuShaMan]

I've been reading this book, when I came across a sentence that I'm struggling to make sense of:

"看那脚步，是一个青春已逝的妇人"

Looking where she stepped?

Is a young, already dead, married woman?

 

It doesn't seem natural to me, I'm just getting the imagine of a zombified woman stumbling about the place.

 

Could someone explain it to me?

[edelweis]

A woman whose Springtime has already faded = a woman past her prime

[ZhangKaiRong]

Already dead would be 不在人世了, this just means that the woman is already past her best years, as edelweis pointed out.

[roddy]

Also, 看那脚步 isn't 'looking where she stepped' it's 'look at her steps' - ie, she walks like a woman past her prime.

[Lu]

It's not the woman who has died, it's her 'springtime'.

是一个 [青春已逝] 的妇人 she is a [springtime already dead] 的 woman