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fain

/feyn/US // feɪn //UK // (feɪn) //

晕倒,隐匿,费恩,徒弟

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : gladly; willingly: He fain would accept.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : willing: They were fain to go.
    • : Archaic. constrained; obliged: He was fain to obey his Lord.
    • : Archaic. glad; pleased.
    • : Archaic. desirous; eager.

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Examples

  • Video cameraman Scott Fain, 54, likes what he hears at the event.

  • Richard would fain have moralised and comforted, but she felt as if she knew it all before, and heard with languid attention.

  • I am a poor fellow, sir; that shall be a longtime getting rich, and would fain not die till I am so.

  • I longed to hear her and to see her always; I would have died in rapture at her side, but I was never fain to wed her.

  • The incident recalled was one that he would fain have forgotten, one the truth of which he intended at all hazards to conceal.

  • There is an obvious allusion in this line to the common proverb—'As fain as fowl of a fair morrow,' which is quoted in the Kn.