Movies can distort time, slow movement down, or speed it up, show actors fading in and out of scenes, etc.

电影可以扭曲时间，减慢或加速运动，展示淡入淡出场景的演员，等等。

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Ideas fuel the engine of history, and in a time when the number of vital and honest ideas are fading, he's pushing at every turn to get more flowing again.

思想点燃了历史的引擎，在一个严肃伟大的思想褪色的时代，他无时不在推动着它们的新生。

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According to astrologists (Mercury in Sagitarius, Saturn fading) the next time that Mercury will be in Sagittarius and Saturn in a "fading" position will be on November 25, 2015.

根据占星学家(水星在射手座，土星衰落)，下一次也就是在2015年11月25日，水星将在射手座，土星将处在衰落位置。

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At the same time loyalty to employers is fading.

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However, with the advent of CinemaScope ("the miracle you can see without glasses") and the higher costs associated with 3D, the fad was fading by the time Dial M for Murder was released in theatres.

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Now that Dr van Paradijs's team, and another led by Kailash Sahu at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, have had time to look properly at the fading point of light, they have noticed a faint fuzz around it that looks as if it could be a galaxy playing host to a dramatic explosion.

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