"Yes," added the sleeper quietly, "her favorite color, as you know. She fades and fades as I look at her," he went on. "She is gone. I only see _you_, under a new aspect. You have a pistol in your hand. Opposite to you, there stands the figure of another man. He, too, has a pistol in his hand. Are you enemies?英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
<67.3> Here used for DEAD OR FADED VEGETATION, but strictly it means DEAD OR FADED LEAF. FILEMORT is another form of the same word.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
Here's the lily, here the rose Her full chalice shall disclose; Here's narcissus wet with dew, Windflower and the violet blue. Wear the garland I have made; Crowned with it, put pride away; For the wreath that blooms must fade; Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》
'Saint Bees! La, who but a madman--begging your honour's pardon --it's a matter of twenty years since fader lived at Saint Bees, which is twenty, or forty, or I dunna know not how many miles from this part, to the West, on the coast side; and I would not have left Saint Bees, but that fader'--英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
Her gaze did not wander, but before his wondering eyes she seemed to fade, fade toward colorlessness insig- nificance. The light died from her eyes, the flush of health from her white skin, the freshness from her lips, the sparkle and vitality from her hair. A slow, gradual transformation, which he watched with a frightened tightening at the heart.英文原著 · 《The Dust》
But when that fades, when every relationship in your life reveals itself to be a trade on your husband's net worth, you may say "Fuck false friends," but you'll be hiring a PR rep the first time your Halloween costume isn't mentioned in Page Six.美剧 · 《Billions》
But legends fade, and their value is then mostly in the stories about them, lessons to future generations on what to do, what not to do." Fucking Prince's pull quote.美剧 · 《Billions》