Fainting
['fentɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint
(n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
校對:韦恩
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of fainting, signifies illness in your family and unpleasant news of the absent. If a young woman dreams of fainting, it denotes that she will fall into ill health and experience disappointment from her careless way of living.
手打:利蒂希娅
例句/造句/用法:
- The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Now, do be quiet, Maurice, or you'll be fainting again. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Night fell upon us before we reached our goal, and, almost fainting from weariness and weakness, we lay down and slept. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In his heat and triumph, and in his knowledge that I had been nearly fainting, he did not remark on my reception of all this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A man has entered our bedroom, answered I, and Martha was thinking about fainting! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I saw the case was a fainting-fit, not necessarily dangerous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She gave a strange cry, turned and clung to him, sinking her face on his breast, fainting in him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And I must say, I think she was used very hardly; for your sister scolded like any fury, and soon drove her into a fainting fit. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Then he fell back into an arm-chair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The word roused the failing, fainting spirit. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They mark'd him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary limb; Kind voices bade him turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A viper--a fiddlestick, said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- After he was gone, Rosamond tried to get up from her seat, but fell back fainting. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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