Fading

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fade

(a.) Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

(n.) Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.

(n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

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• But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Jos was as vain of his person as a woman, and took as long a time at his toilette as any fading beauty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• By and by, I noticed Wemmick's arm beginning to disappear again, and gradually fading out of view. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The last of the evening light was fading away; and over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• YOUR varnish is fading. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And then the red had the appearance of fading out of it and mounting up to Heaven, as we say that blood, guiltily shed, does. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Solutions of potassium iodide were frequently used for this purpose, giving a sharp, blue record, but fading away too rapidly. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If we examine such a spectrum we find the following colors in order, each color imperceptibly fading into the next: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I thought all this very pretty and engaging, and Steerforth seemed to think so too, as we looked after them fading away in the light of a young moon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• How much of it was owing to the spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods, the thought of the dulness she had fled from? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• For my own poor part, the fading summer left me out of health, out of spirits, and, if the truth must be told, out of money as well. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The fluid brightens instead of fading the colors. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air--the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Interposed between her and the fading light of day in the now quiet street, his shadow falls upon her, and he darkens all before her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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