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单词 pale
释义
pale
adjective
uk
/peɪl/us
/peɪl/
B2
used todescribea person'sfaceorskinif it has lesscolourthanusual, forexamplewhen thepersonis orillorfrightened, or if it has lesscolourthanpeoplegenerallyhave:
（脸色或肤色）苍白的，白的
You'relookingpale - are youfeelingwell?你看上去脸色苍白——你病了吗？
She has anaturallypalecomplexionanddarkhair.她天生肤色白皙，头发乌黑。
A2
A palelightorcolouris notbrightorstrong:
暗淡的；浅的，淡的
Sheworea palebluehat.她戴着一顶浅蓝色的帽子。
palewintersunlight冬天惨淡的日光
More examples
  • She wentdeathlypale.
  • Thefoothillsof the Himalayas weresharplyetchedagainst the palebluesky.
  • Paulworepalegreytrouserswith acoralT-shirtandblackjacket.
  • It's asortof paleorangecolour.
  • Sheturnedpale andstartedtoshiver.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The skin, & skin colour
  • anti-wrinkle
  • ashy
  • beauty spot
  • bloodless
  • blush
  • colouring
  • crevice
  • crimson
  • cutaneous
  • cutis
  • florid
  • flush
  • freckle
  • mole
  • sunbath
  • sunbathing
  • sunburned
  • suntan
  • suntanned
  • tanned
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Colourless or causing colour to fade
pale
verb[I]
uk
/peɪl/us
/peɪl/
If a person'sfacepales, itlosesitsusualcolour:
变苍白，失去血色
Hisfacepaled and helookedas if he mightfaint.他脸色变得苍白，看上去像要晕倒一样。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The skin, & skin colour
  • anti-wrinkle
  • ashy
  • beauty spot
  • bloodless
  • blush
  • colouring
  • crevice
  • crimson
  • cutaneous
  • cutis
  • florid
  • flush
  • freckle
  • mole
  • sunbath
  • sunbathing
  • sunburned
  • suntan
  • suntanned
  • tanned
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Expressing and showing feelings

Idioms

pale in comparison
pale into insignificance
(Definition ofpalefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pale| American Dictionary

pale
adjective[-er/-est only]
us
/peɪl/
(of a person’sface) having lesscolorthanusual, or (of acolororlight) notbrightorstrong:
a palebluescarf
A paleyoungmanansweredthedoor.
pale
verb[I]
us
/peɪl/
tobecomelighterthanusualincolor:
Madeleinesickenedand paled during the next twodays.

Idiom

pale in comparison (withsomething/someone)
(Definition ofpalefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpale

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The size of the climate impacts pales in comparison with the size of the economies of the richer nations.
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Attitudes towards boundaries were ambivalent and there was a campaign to establish permanent divisions with walls or pales to eliminate disputes.
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The magnitude of the regional differences should be stressed: the palest areas in the map recorded fewer than half the attendances per capita of the darkest shaded areas.
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He sat slowly back in his chair, his face verypaleand as if bewildered.
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Such minor reservationspaleinto insignificance beside the immense scholarly achievement this edition represents.
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To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a verypaleimitation of what was originally intended.
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One wing lacked the sectorpalespot and the presector dark plus the sector dark was 1.06 mm.
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One wing lacked the apical dark spot and the preapicalpaleplus apicalpalewas 0.52 mm.
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A firm, well circumscribed nodule with a homogenouspalepurple cut surface was found in the right adrenal gland.
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The earlier forms of dissocians to appear were all, apart from the few exceptions mentioned, of thepale-headed type.
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Ties between devotees, where they exist,paleinto insignificance in comparison.
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One may be inclined to think that the type of acceptances involved in internal legal statements must be somewhat weaker or paler than the acceptances involved in ethical statements.
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At the same time, the relative influence of ill health pales in the face of the effects of the sociodemographic characteristics of the men.
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Next to lexical semantics, the acquisition problem for grammar pales by comparison (377, emphasis in the original).
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Alongside that, the one-off hit of £5 billion in windfall taxation almost pales into insignificance.
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