pale 中文
EN[peɪl] [-eɪl]US
形苍白的
FR pale
- 名词 (Noun)PLpalesPREpale-
- (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
- (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
- 动词 (Verb)SGpalesPRpalingPT, PPpaled
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- (intransitive) To become insignificant.
- 2006 New York Times Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, ...
- (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in / With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. — Shakespeare.
- (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
- 形容词 (Adjective)COMpalerSUPpalest
- Light in color.
- I have pale yellow wallpaper. She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
- Feeble, faint.
- He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
- Light in color.
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- 用于句中
- Her short stout body was packed into pale pink polyester pants and a matching buttonfront vest.
- 1962: And that odd muse of mine, / My versipel, is with me everywhere, / In carrel and in car, and in my chair. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
- Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.
- 用于句中
Definition of pale in English Dictionary
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