fainted adj. 昏厥
- His poor little son fainted from hunger.
他那可怜的小儿子饿得昏厥过去了。 - A young student fainted in the hot sun.
有个年幼的学生在炎炎烈日下晕倒了。
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.
- She thanked her family, especially her husband Emilio, "who waited until we got to the hospital before he fainted, and my son Nayib, who held my hand while we waited for the ambulances.
- Mrs. Marcos, 59, fainted while accompanying her husband as he was being wheeled to surgery, and fell and hit her head, Miller said.
- I fainted," said Ibtissam Khodor, a Moslem housewife who was shopping when the truck exploded.
- One of the troopers later kicked Zaidan in the back so hard that he fainted, the radio said.
- "Some of the soldiers were beaten until they fainted, and even some were beaten until death."
- It was finally determined Anita Page, the 77-year-old star of "Broadway Melody," fainted and was all right.
- After the third bus left he started making his way inland towards government lines but "I fainted a couple of times.
- Two had fainted by late afternoon.
- The judge heard Bakker's psychiatrist, Dr. Basil Jackson, testify that Bakker hallucinated when he left the courthouse Wednesday after a witness fainted.
- In the morning, he found it coiled around the shower head and fainted.
- A 19-year-old woman scratched her attackers, cried out in vain for help and fainted while she was being gang-raped on the hood of a car, a witness facing charges in the case testified Wednesday.
- Defense attorney Harold Bender, who was questioning Nelson last week when the witness fainted, chose not to cross-examine him Wednesday.
- They huddled under umbrellas for protection from the heat, but dozens fainted.
- Nurses dubbed him the "ether bunny" many years ago after he fainted on the bunny trail, he said.
- "The only explanation we got from him was that he `freaked out,"' Boggus said. "He said he almost fainted himself.
- The British destroyer HMS Exeter, on patrol in the area, dispatched a helicopter to help rescue the crew, many of whom had fainted from fumes leaking from blasted cargo holds, the shipping sources said.
- A high school senior on Tuesday had a chance to display her poise immediately after she was named the 1991 Tournament of Roses queen, when a member of her court fainted in her arms.
- She told the audience, "Thank you with all my heart," then went backstage and fainted.
- Chiang, who had been hospitalized for a year with asthma, fainted Tuesday as the legislature convened to vote for a new speaker.
- Two years ago I would have fainted for joy at the features offered by any.
- And then she fainted or had some type of attack," said Nancy Brizuela, an airport official who translated the comments of witnesses.
- A woman wailing and weeping was taken to the mobile hospital when she fainted.
- He fainted and was hospitalized after seeing the files, the party said.
- A guard at the rear of the stage fainted.
- "She fainted," said a nursing coordinator at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan who did not want her name used. "She is here and in stable condition.
- His wife cried loudly and his mother fainted as relatives and friends embraced him after the brief proceedings.
- Two Iranians died and thousands fainted as huge crowds flocked to the grave of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Sunday for a memorial service marking a week since his death.