| 釋義 |
faintlyad.
1. in a feeble,languid manner虛弱無力地。
△Oth.3.3.282:“Why do you speak so faintly?”你說話怎么這樣有氣無力的？
2. languidly,half-heartedly沒精打采地，半心半意地。
△1H.VI.1.2.7: “Otherwhiles the famished English,like pale ghosts,/ Faintly besiege us one hour in amonth.”有時(shí)那些饑餓的英國人，就像蒼白的幽靈一樣，在一個(gè)月當(dāng)中沒精打采地來圍攻我們個(gè)把小時(shí)。
3. feebly,languidly,timidly軟弱無力地，沒精打采地，膽怯地。
△H.V.4.2.43:“Big Mars seems bankrout intheir beggared host,/ And faintly through a rustybeaver peeps.”驕橫的戰(zhàn)神到了他們那支叫花子似的隊(duì)伍里也像是破了產(chǎn)，只能從 一副生銹的面甲里膽怯地向外窺看。
4. not very earnestly,not really meaning it不很認(rèn)真地，并不真正在意地。
△Oth.4.1.113(112):“Now he deniesit faintly. and laughs it out.”現(xiàn)在他只含含糊糊地否認(rèn)，一笑置之。
5. toned down,euphemistically 輕描淡寫，委婉地。
△Lr1.2.196(174): “I have told you what I have seen andheard,but faintly.”我已經(jīng)把我所看到、所聽到的事情都告訴你了，可還只是輕描淡寫。 |