fade /ˈfed/
 (vi.)褪色,消失,凋謝(vt.)使褪色淡入,淡出(a.)平淡的


 fade
 衰落


 fade
 衰落


 Fade v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fading.]
 1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
    The earth mourneth and fadeth away.   --Is. xxiv. 4.
 2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. “Flowers that never fade.”
 3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
    The stars shall fade away.   --Addison
 He makes a swanlike end,
 Fading in music.   --Shak.


 Fade a.  Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] “Passages that are somewhat fade.”
    His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.   --De Quincey.


 Fade, v. t. To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
    No winter could his laurels fade.   --Dryden.

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 fade
      n 1: a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed
           golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn: slice,
            slicing]
      2: gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: disappearance]
      v 1: become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear
           gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The
           tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" [syn: melt]
      2: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
         [syn: wither]
      3: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn:
         evanesce, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
      4: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in
         the dungeon" [syn: languish]