Faintness

(noun.) barely audible.

(noun.) the property of being without strength; 'the faintness or potency of the feeling'.

(noun.) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon.

校对:奥利弗

• But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation--this total prostration of hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Faint, my Lady murmurs with white lips, only that; but it is like the faintness of death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I am overpowered with faintness and fatigue, else I had many, many more arguments to urge. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A dread and faintness fell upon me, and I called to Charley. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Just before supper-time, however, Anne Catherick startled them all by being suddenly seized with faintness. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When the first faintness consequent on having moved about had left him, he subsided into his former state. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I felt a thrill while I answered him; but no coldness, and no faintness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It had been a mere passing faintness, a momentary sensation, not worth a thought; yet it was felt there was a difference in Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My mortal fear and faintness must have made me deadly pale. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I was troubled: a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me; but I was quickly restored by the cold gale of the mountains. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was attempted to introduce it commercially, but it failed on account of its faintness and the extraneous sounds which came in on its wires from various causes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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