Swoon

(v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.

(n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

整理:米切尔

• He must have dropped in his death-swoon--he must have sunk in the place where he was found--just as I got on the roof to break the skylight window. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Yet the cold was merciful, for it was the cold night air and the rain that restored me from a swoon on the stones of the causeway. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And I know not if I slept or waked, or were in a dead swoon, till Mary come in; and I telled her to fetch yo' to me. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But the sickly daze of the swoon made her still miserably faint. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• One wanted to swoon into the by-gone perfection of it all. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And the exquisite pleasure of slowly arresting the boat, in the heavy-soft water, was complete as a swoon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Had the shape approached me I might have swooned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The girl had swooned. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Near the Béguinage, amidst the stress of flood and gust, and in the perplexity of darkness, you had swooned and fallen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In a moment more I should certainly have swooned away in his arms, but for an interruption from the outer world, which brought me to myself again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She swooned with acute comprehension and pleasure. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It was only this timely appearance that kept Bella from swooning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The terrible swooning burden on his mind, the awful swooning, the loss of all his control, was too much for him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She felt it swooning over her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And then she took the lanterns from him, while he stood swooning with the perfect fire that burned in all his joints. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

校对:马里恩