“She is fading”の意味は

アメリカの人気テレビドラマ『ホワイトカラー』を観ながらETC英会話のフレッド先生のレッスンを受けています。

天才詐欺師のニールはFBI捜査官ピーターに捕まってしまいます。しかし、制限付きではありますが自由を得るために、ニールはFBIのホワイトカラークライム、知的犯罪捜査のコンサルタントとして協力することになります。

今日はこんなダイアログから。

Peter:
Steve, if we showed you some pictures, do you think you could recognize him?
Steve:
We just need to get the bible back, okay? ‘Cause she’s fading, all right?

さて、“She is fading”とはどのような意味なのでしょうか。

In this case, if the person is sick and in the hospital, and they are dying little by little, their life is fading away.
So we have to get the information before they die.
Another example for “she is fading” is she is out there, but we can’t find her, and the longer we can’t find her, the more we will not be able to find her.
So we never be able to see her again.
She is fading, so two meanings here.
So if a person is sick, for example, my mother is sick in the hospital, and she is fading.
She is dying. So she is fading.
Another one is you imagine somebody is running away, where they get smaller and smaller and smaller like a camera, you fade away, well they are disappearing.
You won’t be able to see them any more.
“Fading” is again the slang word.
“She is getting weak” is a regular terminology.

fade 　
１）(若さ・新鮮さ・美しさ・強さなどが)衰える.　
２）〈色・光・音などが〉〔…から〕次第に消えて[薄れて]いく

regular terminology　
正式な用語

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