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faintlyad. 1. in a feeble,languid manner虚弱无力地。 △Oth.3.3.282:“Why do you speak so faintly?”你说话怎么这样有气无力的? 2. languidly,half-heartedly没精打采地,半心半意地。 △1H.VI.1.2.7: “Otherwhiles the famished English,like pale ghosts,/ Faintly besiege us one hour in amonth.”有时那些饥饿的英国人,就像苍白的幽灵一样,在一个月当中没精打采地来围攻我们个把小时。 3. feebly,languidly,timidly软弱无力地,没精打采地,胆怯地。 △H.V.4.2.43:“Big Mars seems bankrout intheir beggared host,/ And faintly through a rustybeaver peeps.”骄横的战神到了他们那支叫花子似的队伍里也像是破了产,只能从 一副生锈的面甲里胆怯地向外窥看。 4. not very earnestly,not really meaning it不很认真地,并不真正在意地。 △Oth.4.1.113(112):“Now he deniesit faintly. and laughs it out.”现在他只含含糊糊地否认,一笑置之。 5. toned down,euphemistically 轻描淡写,委婉地。 △Lr1.2.196(174): “I have told you what I have seen andheard,but faintly.”我已经把我所看到、所听到的事情都告诉你了,可还只是轻描淡写。 |