fading
present participle offade
| 单词 | fading |
| 释义 | fading present participle offade fade verb[IorT] uk/feɪd/us/feɪd/B2 to (causeto)losecolour,brightness, orstrengthgradually: If youhangyourclothesout in thebrightsun, they will fade. Mysuntanis already fading. Theyarrivedhomejust as thelightwas fading(= as it was gettingdark). Thesunhad faded thebluewalls.
Colourless or causing colour to fade
Idiombe fading away/fast Phrasal verbsfade away fade(something)in fade (something) out Examplesoffadingfading In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. And exits took on the qualities of a final musical chordfadingoff into inaudibility. From theCambridge English Corpus Even while one is enthralled with the grand passions presented on stage, one recognises that 'what one heard was simultaneously invented andfadingaway' (xvi). From theCambridge English Corpus With thefadingof the political role it held in the late 1980s, rock's power as signifier has been compromised. From theCambridge English Corpus The 'fadingof the state' in the field of welfare means that institutional solidarity is also weakening. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, this layer per forms afading-of-information operation which is per formed when cer tain temporal conditions are met. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather thanfading, the segregationists' crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly different veneer, and became the fulcrum of the conservative's proposed agenda on crime. From theCambridge English Corpus When employing a question word to request, they tend to use the 'fadingterminal', all the time and for all purposes. From theCambridge English Corpus Even wing rubbing,fadingor fraying, previously referred to as a nuisance factor, may be of intrinsic interest. From theCambridge English Corpus Thisfadingout is reflected in our sample in the tendency to forget people who had once been important, their disappearance without comment. From theCambridge English Corpus Thesefadingmemories baffled the rare scholars who sought for some memory of that regime. From theCambridge English Corpus On the thorax and legs the colour becomes paler and softer and takes on a more pinkish tinge beforefadingcompletely. From theCambridge English Corpus The border is far from being the trace of an event long over, like a healed andfadingincision scar. From theCambridge English Corpus However, this time, thefadingout sound does not ascend or descend but rather stays at the same pitch. From theCambridge English Corpus It is contrasted only by thefadingsound of an aeroplane. From theCambridge English Corpus This vector extended the left of the panorama,fadinggradually into the reaches of distal space. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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