| 词汇 | fade |
| 释义 | fade verb[ I or T ] uk /feɪd/ us /feɪd/ fadeverb[I or T] (BECOME LESS)B2 to (cause to) lose colour, brightness, or strength gradually: （使）褪色;（使）变暗;（使）衰弱 If you hang your clothes out in the bright sun, they will fade.衣服挂在光线强的地方晾晒会褪色。 My suntan is already fading.我晒黑的肤色已经开始变浅了。 They arrived home just as the light was fading (= as it was getting dark).天色变暗时，他们到家了。 The sun had faded the blue walls.太阳把蓝色的墙晒褪了色。 Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.一旦新规则开始实施，这些问题大多可能就会变得无关紧要了。 My memory of childhood fades as time goes by. Her worries about her job have faded into the background since she learned about her father's illness.自从得知父亲生病后，她就顾不上担心自己的工作了。 Hope is fading that the missing child is still alive.失踪孩子仍活着的可能性越来越渺茫。 As she drifted into sleep, the doctor's face began to blur and fade.当她渐渐入睡时，医生的脸开始模糊，渐渐消失了。 Colourless or causing colour to fade ashen-faced bleach colourlessly depigmentation discoloration discolour drably frost ghostly light lighten muted pale palish sombre subdued washed out washy weather weathered You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making less strong fadeverb[I or T] (GOLF)In golf, if you fade the ball, you hit it so it moves slightly to one side rather than straight in front. If a golf ball fades, it moves slightly to one side: Trying to fade the ball off the tee, he hooked into deep rough. By aiming down the left-hand side, the ball will fade back into the middle of the fairway. See also slice To fade the ball, you would still aim the clubface at the target, but this time the feet, knees, hips, and shoulders would aim off to the left of the target. The drive is tricky because you must fade the ball to end up in a flat spot about 280 yards out. His shot faded to the right and plunged into a greenside pond. Golf approach shot best ball better ball bogey bogie caddy carry chip dogleg greenside hazard hole hole out lay someone up long game rough tap waggle wedge yip Idiombe fading away/fast Phrasal verbsfade away fade (something) in fade (something) out fade noun uk /feɪd/ us /feɪd/ fadenoun (GRADUAL CHANGE)[ C ] a gradual loss of colour or brightness, often until an image disappears: A fade to black would be a good way to end the sequence. fade outAt that point there is a fade out so what happens next is left to our imaginations. [ C ] a way of ending a piece of music by making it gradually quieter and quieter: At the end of the song we just repeat the chorus until the fade. The software allows you to make fades and segue the songs together. a fade in a gradual increase in colour, brightness, or loudness so that a picture or sound appears gradually: You could begin your web page with a fade in, allowing the visitor to concentrate on one important point before seeing the rest of the page content. [ C ] a gradual loss of strength or importance: That was when his career began its slow fade into obscurity. See also brain fade At that point the scene goes into a fade until the screen turns black and the credits come up. By now, the tulips in the garden had begun their fade and the alliums were on the way in. Colourless or causing colour to fade ashen-faced bleach colourlessly depigmentation discoloration discolour drably frost ghostly light lighten muted pale palish sombre subdued washed out washy weather weathered You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making less strong Becoming and making smaller or less Recording sounds and images Increasing and intensifying fadenoun (HAIR)[ C ] a hairstyle in which the hair is left fairly long on top of the head, cut gradually shorter at the sides, and cut very short or completely removed lower down: At the barber shop you can get a fade for £20. The boys all had fades. Hairstyles Afro Afro puff bandeau Bantu knots barnet blow-dry bowl cut chignon fringe hair extension hairdo kiss curl pony pudding basin relaxed shake out shoulder-length sidelock skinhead undercut fadenoun (GOLF)[ C or U ] in golf, the action of hitting the ball slightly to one side rather than straight in front, or the movement of the ball slightly to one side: He said he was trying to draw the ball rather than hit a fade. All you need is about two yards of fade on your ball and it's gone. See also slice She has added a soft fade on tee shots and approaches. If you overcook a fade, your next shot will be a sideways recovery. He has been hitting a lot of fade shots as he has cleverly worked his way round the course. Golf approach shot best ball better ball bogey bogie caddy carry chip dogleg greenside hazard hole hole out lay someone up long game rough tap waggle wedge yip fadenoun (AMERICAN FOOTBALL)in American football, a passing move where the player receiving the ball runs straight at first but then moves towards the side of the playing area to catch the ball: Wideout Marvin Davis was supposed to run a fade towards the right-hand corner. The touchdown on a fade to Miller turned out to be the winning score. A fade is often the go-to move when close to the end zone and you have a tall wide receiver. The quarterback saw Williams on the fade route but ignored him and scrambled for seven yards. American football attempt audibilize back judge blitz blocker bootleg flare flea-flicker formation forward pass forward progress free play play clock point after pulling blocker pump-fake punt quarterback return specialist turnover fade | American Dictionaryfade verb[ I ] us/feɪd/ to lose color, brightness, or strength gradually: If you hang your clothes out in the bright sun, they will fade. If something fades away/out, it becomes less clear and then disappears: The voice on the radio faded out. Examples of fadefade Even work on popular music and video, which once grabbed the imagination of popular music and media scholars, has faded from the academic agenda. However, he has been subjected to enough received pragmatic influence that his ability to recognize the subtleties of indigenous interaction has faded. Having no discernible form, the five-minute piece eventually fades and ends. Even while one is enthralled with the grand passions presented on stage, one recognises that 'what one heard was simultaneously invented and fading away' (xvi). Any short-term advantage resulting from such manoeuvres soon faded, however. The negative influence of bereavement on physical and mental health often fades over time. Thereafter, every retransformation is recessive, little by little losing its energy until at the end it fades completely. Fingerprinting faded further into the background of criminalistics. Close to the injection sites cells were intensely labeled, while towards the periphery of the patch the label gradually faded away. Spectacle, by contrast, relies on novelty; when it ceases to be cutting-edge, its effects quickly begin to appear faded and tawdry. Two years later the national army crumpled and faded away. A dead moth dissolves, specimened old as wallpaper faded two centuries past. Look at how these new socks faded in the wash! Intriguingly, the expression within the epicardium gradually fades after birth, whereas robust expression persists in the valves, which largely derive from the endocardial cushions. Even wing rubbing, fading or fraying, previously referred to as a nuisance factor, may be of intrinsic interest. See all examples of fade 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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