faint的意思|faint的解释-里氏词典

Faint \Faint\, n.
The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a
swoon. [R.] See {Fainting}, n.

The saint,
Who propped the Virgin in her faint. --Sir W.
Scott.

Faint \Faint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fainted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fainting}.]
1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to
lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or
mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See
{Fainting}, n.

Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.
--Guardian.

If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by
the way. --Mark viii.
8.

2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to
become depressed or despondent.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength
is small. --Prov. xxiv.
10.

3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before
the eye. --Pope.

Faint \Faint\ (f[=a]nt), a. [Compar. {Fainter} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Faintest}.] [OE. feint, faint, false, faint, F. feint, p. p.
of feindre to feign, suppose, hesitate. See {Feign}, and cf.
{Feint}.]
1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as,
faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly;
dejected; depressed; as, ``Faint heart ne'er won fair
lady.'' --Old Proverb.

3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the
senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible;
weak; as, a faint color, or sound.

4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not
exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint
efforts; faint resistance.

The faint prosecution of the war. --Sir J.
Davies.

Faint \Faint\, v. t.
To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to
weaken. [Obs.]

It faints me to think what follows. --Shak.

That came as a setback to some faint hopes in the financial world that the Federal Reserve might take the employment data as a cue to relax its credit policy further.
It might be possible, he said, to use gravitational lenses _ areas in space in which gravity bends light in the same way that a magnifying glass does _ to see small, faint stars in the dark halo, if they exist.
It started as faint, curved lines of red, blue, green, purple and pink light.
Each person is requested to check a box next to the statement: "Enclosed is $1,000,000." For the faint of heart, smaller checks also are accepted.
Then a faint scratching sound draws the eye upwards.
The FT's audit of the Citizen's Charter on Monday damned it with faint praise.
He seldom goes on the attack; when he does, he tends to use a gentlemanly stiletto, not a cudgel. He damns with faint praise: Paul Theroux's "Sailing Through China," he writes, "has the charm of fragments."
"We work from 6 in the morning to 8 at night, then go home and faint.
Mrs. Marcos, 60, uttered a faint cry before she slumped forward, and attorneys and family members rushed to her aid.
An Agriculture Department aide opened a can of pork for reporters Wednesday afternoon that had only a faint odor.
The square mile was at this time no place for faint hearts. One of its specialities was grossly overpriced loans to the newly liberated countries of Latin America.
On the contrary, like most people in the village, his attitude was indifference tinged with a faint hope for improvement.
After she had testified for about one hour, the court recessed when the woman, in tears, said she was about to faint.
Until that happens, there is faint hope for Eritrea, and less for Ethiopia.
"The legislators are feeling the faint heat coming down the pike and it's just getting hotter," said Brenda Hucks, director of South Carolina Citizens for Life. "They're (also) going to feel heat from pro-abortion folks and the media.
Kramer makes it painlessly symbolical: in a close huddle, the singing nuns (twice too many of them) advance slowly from furthest rear-stage, two or three of them faint dead at each audible crash of the blade, like flowers dropping from a bouquet.
It started as faint, curved lines of mostly red, blue, green, purple and pink light.
Choose a heavy pot, keep the flame faint and employ a heat diffuser for good measure. Tradition calls for a large pot in which the rest of the meal can be cooked along with the bacon.
The liberal (left of centre) groups remain knocked off balance by this resurgence of authentic liberalism. At last, however, I can report a faint whiff of something new, or at least something a little less hackneyed.
This fund isn't for the faint of heart.
A photocopying and facsimile machine salesman, Sniffen suffers from intermittent heart block, a condition that makes the heart stop occasionally and can cause the patient to faint.
So they sit tight, looking for solace in faint hope and deep cynicism.
Instead, the role Washington has assigned to Presidents ever since the 1974 budget "reform" bill has been to faint dead away as the garbage truck rolls through town.
Theoretically, if a monopole passed through the detector, it would cause a reaction in the solution, resulting in a faint light emission picked up by instruments.
One woman appeared to faint, then ran screaming from the courtroom when she recovered.
Cardinal John Krol was in serious condition at a hospital today and undergoing medical tests a day after he complained of feeling faint while playing golf.
Seemingly hours later, a faint crackle came back: 'Red Beach calling.
It may be faint praise, since it clearly aspires to more, to call it a good read; but so it is.
Some of Dumas' hope hinges on faint evidence and vague sightings.
James Haley, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy, said the faint locater signal was picked up by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration orbiter and was coming from an area 130 miles south-southeast of Addis Ababa, the capital.

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