fain

英 [feɪn]

美 [feɪn]

adv.  欣然; 乐意地

BNC.49172 / COCA.31712

牛津词典

adv.

• 欣然；乐意地
  willingly or with pleasure
  1. I would fain do as you ask.
     听候你的吩咐。

英英释义

adj

• having made preparations
  1. prepared to take risks
  Synonym:disposed(p)inclined(p)prepared

adv

• in a willing manner
  1. this was gladly agreed to
  2. I would fain do it
  Synonym:gladlylief

双语例句

• And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning.
  我愿你们将我记做是一个起点。
• I am so weary of this place; and I would fain be at home.
  我在这里无聊极了；我真想回家。
• Mr Fain admitted that big ships would never be suited to every market.
  他承认，大船不可能适合所有市场。
• For I'm weary wi'hunting, and fain wald lie down.
  我打猎太累了，只想舒服地躺躺。
• However, I would fain write to you now by broad daylight, and report to you some of my life, such as it is, and recall you to your life, which is not always lived by you, even by daylight.
  不管怎样，大白天给你写信我很高兴，向你报告一些生命的消息。这样做的目的也是为了唤醒你的生命，那并不是时时醒着，甚至是在大白天。
• Fain would we await the time when due respect shall be paid to our art and ideals.
  我们将欣然等待我们的艺术与理想得到应有尊重的那一天。
• Cathy would fain have taken one glance, but her father told her to come on, and they walked together up the park, while I hastened before to prepare the servants.
  凯蒂想多看一眼，但是他父亲喊她过来，我在前面忙着招呼仆人，他们就一块走到花园里去了。
• And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.
  我祈愿你全心去唱它；然而却不愿你们在歌唱之中迷失了灵魂。
• The prime minister himself would fain wait upon him at breakfast.
  首相很乐意亲自伺候他吃早餐。
• Therefore they hate thee, and would fain suck thy blood.
  所以他们恨你而想吸你的血。