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1 With unutterable misery, the fettered little King heard the voices and footsteps fade away and die out.

戴着脚镣的小国王听到声音和脚步声渐渐消失，直到听不见。真是说不出的痛苦。

2 He was two dozen feet from me, but I could see him perfectly in the fading light of sunset.

3 She could just make out the writing on his fading name tag—Sutton.

4 She runs on stiff legs past the sofa draped with the faded mantilla, past the water-bleached walnut piano, past the dining-room set missing a chair, and waits in front of the house.

5 And I heard the voices and footsteps fade away.

6 Goose bumps covered his skin, layered over fading bruises that dotted his torso and ran down along his ribs.

7 Everything faded from gray to grayer to grayer still, so that soon there was hardly any color, and then the gray was so dark that Turner couldn’t see through it.

8 The ring thins and fades, leaving only a bright red scar around Celia’s finger.

9 One potential explanation offered by the researchers is that advantages that are measurable in the very young and very old tend to fade when testing young adults at the peak of their cognitive powers.

研究人员提供的一个可能的解释是，在非常年轻和非常年长的人身上可以测量到的优势，在测试处于认知能力高峰期的年轻成年人时往往会消失。

10 The blacktop twisted through a wooded area like a river and soon the sound of the highway had faded away behind them.

11 As the adults continued their gloomy conversation and Zalmay played with a handheld video game, Fadi shrank back into the fading brown leather seat.

12 Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded.

13 Then, as I watched in amazement, my avatar reappeared, fading back into existence in the exact same location where I’d died a few seconds earlier.

14 The Swiss and the Hungarians were fading badly.

15 There was just that stream of breath and blood and tension rolling from Rose’s ear down under the collar of her faded parka.

16 When the story ended, the old woman studied my mother for a long time while she wrapped and rewrapped her faded blue pagne over her flat chest.

17 ‘Then I am needed there more than here,’ said Gandalf, and rode off at once, and the glimmer of him faded soon from sight.

18 My overalls were patched and faded but they were clean.

19 Robb drew a map across the table, a ragged piece of old leather covered with lines of faded paint.

20 Her mind drifted, and the twins’ bickering voices faded.

1 衰老

decrepit senile senescent anile ageing senescence senility dotage decrepitude caducity anility age bedridden bewhiskered epicene old geriatric grey dodder consenescence consenescency decline dote impotent effete gerontic doited aging fading impotence come apart at the seams

2 衰退

failing rusty degenerate sagging failure decline weakness recession decay downturn slowdown degeneration ebb atrophy weakening fail flag weaken lapse sag falter depression dip slump crumble faltering skid shake-out go retrogress declining impotent obsolescent netherward downward downwards lag regression obsolescence declination downbeat turndown declension involution retrogression retrogradation fall erode dwindle wither languish molder reduce depress damp off

3 变淡

soften lighten thin thin down

4 平淡的

plain tame diddly-bop obvious routine colorless prosy

5 乏味

heavy stupid sour literal weary soggy innocuous tasteless uninteresting matter-of-fact insipid stodgy wearisome mousy incurious sapless innocuity drab aridity vapidity noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive slow boring bare pedestrian blah pathetic prose watery barren stuffy sickly boneless uninspired icky moldy prosaic unimaginative humdrum naff ho-hum unexciting unglamorous humorless washy prosy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water milk and water

6 渐隐

iris-out dissolve fade-out

7 逐渐消失

efface vanish wear thin dwindle away peter out tail away trail off Peter melt dissolve die away tail off wear off trail away dissipate wear away fade out die out die-away fade-out graduate drain blank glide ooze peter go glimmering

8 变得模糊不清

blur

9 消逝

passage lapse elapse wear waste creep

10 褪色

rusty passe washed-out discolorment discoloration fadeaway bleach discolor fox discolour bleed blanch pale besmirch weather bleaching-out stained etiolation fly cast etiolate noncolorfast old fading destain

11 逐渐改变

shade

12 渐渐消失

evanescent dissolve ooze go glimmering merge into swoon evanesce

13 憔悴的

fallen bony battered seedy gaunt emaciate haggard peaked

14 失败

lost frustrate frustrated unsuccessful losing bankrupt stillborn abortive ballup loss miss failure defeat reverse hip header collapse frustration abortion turkey bust bankruptcy flap crab frost setback beating flop overthrow strikeout failing miscarriage fluff meltdown shipwreck bummer balk fizzle worse gaffe flunk butch barney flummox fungo cruller schmear flivver cockup lay-down smashup lash-up unsuccess balls-up stumer fliv fail default cook crash founder funk miscarry brodie muff flub trip damn stiff blob counteract pip confound checkmate throw a wrench into lose the day come to the ground die on feet one in the eye clutch the gummy lay a bomb put the skids on come unstuck go bust come apart at the seams go bung fall on face miss fire blow it fall to the ground draw blank have the worst drag anchor

15 渐显

iris-in fade-in

16 消失

fading clear drop die disappear flee faint vanish evaporate dissipate swallow disperse dispel lost to view take wings to itself self-destruct out passing extinction lapse disappearance dissolution evaporation dissipation fadeaway evanescence go set pass remove lift resolve fleet cease dissolve crumble occult ebb tine involute evanesce evanish furl dematerialize kill wipe snatch obliterate deaden unmake go to the wind wipeoff the map

17 渐强

crescendo fade-in

18 下降

down fall drop decline slip dip descent drop-off fall-off sink descend shrink sag go southwards drop away fall off fall back cool off fall away

19 淡入

fade-in lap dissolve iris-in dissolve

20 离开

waygoing out back off down away clear vacant aloof awa quit standoff remotion go break separate bug screw retire wander flit mosey mog prescind leave remove depart estrange

21 憔悴

wearish wasted gaunt emaciated haggard peaked peaky cadaverous chapfallen toilworn emaciation languishment peak consume pine wilt languish emaciate pine away thin hungry wan drawn seedy die wither pinch peak and pine devour heart out green about the gills fallen bony battered tabefaction sear

22 渐弱

fade-out diminuendo trail

23 乏味的

heavy stupid sour literal weary soggy innocuous tasteless uninteresting matter-of-fact insipid stodgy wearisome mousy incurious sapless noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive slow boring bare pedestrian blah pathetic prose watery barren stuffy sickly boneless uninspired icky moldy prosaic unimaginative humdrum naff ho-hum unexciting unglamorous humorless washy prosy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water

24 失去光泽

tarnish

25 枯萎

emarcid dead killing sear withering blasted withered blighted sere sapless blastment blast fadeaway die flag damp wilt scorch wither languish droop shrivel kill choke blight scathe wither away lifeless shrivelled wizen nip fry damp off scorched faded dried-up blasting dieback languor perish pinch

26 淡出

fade-out lap dissolve

27 变暗

cloud dusk blacken dim darken deepen black out

28 使苍白

blench

29 凋谢

dead passe passee fadeaway die wilt wither droop wither away decay sear withered sere dieback languish pinch

30 苍白

white green wan pale sickly ghastly livid bloodless mealy ashen doughy pallid washy cadaverous lightness blench

31 使凋谢

wither wilt sear

32 变暗淡

dull dim pale shade

33 平淡

plain tame flatly insipidity flat diddly-bop obvious routine colorless prosy

34 跑掉

bolt duck evaporate vamoos vamoose

35 使枯萎

withering wilt blight scorch wither shrivel

36 没意思的

unshoed slip-slop dead wonky wishy-washy unsatisfying off the cob

37 落空

squib trick sink blast frustrate defy scotch falsify delude scupper drop through fall to the ground

38 使消失

swallow disperse dispel

39 衰弱

low degenerate feeble infirm effete infirmity flag enervate enfeeble waste away broken slim slack rundown weakly decrepit flabby flaccid languid flagging feckless unstrung failure collapse weakness debility asthenia marasmus break die fail waste sink faint jade wane wear debilitate niminy-piminy asthenic breakdown decay pine prostrate emaciate devitalize wither droop fade away take it out of failing run-down enfeebled enervated frailty weaken debile donsie delicate gone wasted helpless bedridden seely doddery doddered astheny labefaction hyposthenia relaxation breakup wilt sinking attenuation fading declination prostration decrepitude lose lag ebb falter languor crock distress wreck extenuate unstring depauperate come apart at the seams bring low

40 淡漠

careless uninterested

41 变弱

dim fall break relax moderate melt weaken taint swoon attenuate bate damp

42 白人

European steel gray blue-eyed bakra oofay ofay jig-chaser hayeater ofaginzy man face white pink hack pale silk chuck wig marshmallow patty peck Cajun paddy hunky Charles Charlie whitey fay Charley haole sahib paleface buckra kelt honkie pakeha mzungu hincty

43 击出

line hook bloop wrong-foot

44 增强

rise swell reinforcement intension enhance boost reinforce enrich increase mount intensify put spurs to on the upgrade

45 凋落

die

46 衰落

sunset slide decline decay downfall wane falter come down in the world come up in the world go down in the world go up in the world on the wane sick faded overripe waney down descent fading decadence set slump ebb dwine

47 落后

trail drop back

48 渐弱淡出

fade-out

49 使…褪色

discolour

50 使衰老

age

51 没意思

unshoed slip-slop dead wonky wishy-washy unsatisfying of no account off the cob

52 走下坡路

be on the skids put the skids under be all downhill be downhill all the way be downhill go downhill

53 退步

regressive backwards regression regress

54 消退

drain resolution subside resolve sink

55 逃掉

clear blow evaporate

56 使褪色

discolor besmirch discolour etiolate weather destain