Faintness
['feintnis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) barely audible.
(noun.) the property of being without strength; 'the faintness or potency of the feeling'.
(noun.) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon.
校對:奥利弗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
(n.) Want of vigor or energy.
(n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
(n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation--this total prostration of hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Faint, my Lady murmurs with white lips, only that; but it is like the faintness of death. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am overpowered with faintness and fatigue, else I had many, many more arguments to urge. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- A dread and faintness fell upon me, and I called to Charley. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Just before supper-time, however, Anne Catherick startled them all by being suddenly seized with faintness. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When the first faintness consequent on having moved about had left him, he subsided into his former state. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I felt a thrill while I answered him; but no coldness, and no faintness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It had been a mere passing faintness, a momentary sensation, not worth a thought; yet it was felt there was a difference in Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My mortal fear and faintness must have made me deadly pale. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I was troubled: a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me; but I was quickly restored by the cold gale of the mountains. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was attempted to introduce it commercially, but it failed on account of its faintness and the extraneous sounds which came in on its wires from various causes. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
手打:弗拉德