faintly
隐约可见,隐隐约约地,隐约地,隐隐约约
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faint·er, faint·est.
- : lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- : feeble or slight: faint resistance; faint praise; a faint resemblance.
- : feeling weak, dizzy, or exhausted; about to lose consciousness: faint with hunger.
- : lacking courage; cowardly; timorous: Faint heart never won fair maid.
- : Law. unfounded: a faint action.
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- : to lose consciousness temporarily.
- : to lose brightness.
- : Archaic. to grow weak; lose spirit or courage.
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- : a temporary loss of consciousness resulting from a decreased flow of blood to the brain; a swoon: to fall into a faint.
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It’s a tricky job, because ORCS are very faint and difficult to find.
Arecibo was more than an exquisitely sensitive ear tuned to pick up faint radio waves from deep space.
With such a huge dish to collect radio waves, Arecibo could see very faint objects and phenomena.
I would frequently feel faint after standing for only a few minutes at a time.
Most stars are too far and too faint to show up as anything but a point.
The system faintly evokes the charm of the Hogwarts houses—without a Sorting Hat, that is.
Says my wife, returning from the shower be-robed, towel-turbaned, and still smelling faintly of not-made-from-concentrate.
The facts are not faintly controversial for those who believe in reality: vaccination saves lives, families, and dollars.
The camera homes in on a young boy peering out the window, his face faintly visible through its steel security bars.
If you listened closely during the bleep, you could faintly hear Jacqueline Bissett still giving her speech.
"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.
There was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.
Presently the Hole-keeper stopped short and said, faintly, "It strikes me the sun is very hot here."
She reached out and took the cigarette from Mrs. Kaye's faintly resisting hand.
Winifred, indeed, in response to a question, said faintly that she thought she could keep going if she had a drink of milk.