paler

英 [ˈpeɪlə] 美 [ˈpeɪlər]

adj.  灰白的; 苍白的; 白皙的; 浅色的; 淡色的; 暗淡的; 微弱的
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  1. ADJ-GRADED 浅色的；灰白的
    If something is pale, it is very light in colour or almost white.
    1. Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
      灰白的天空中满是迁徙的飞鸟。
    2. As we age, our skin becomes paler.
      随着年龄的增长，我们的皮肤愈见苍白。
    3. ...a circle of pale light.
      淡淡的光晕
    4. Pale is also a combining form.
      （亦可用于构词）
    5. ...a pale blue sailor dress...
      浅蓝色水手服
    6. In the background, dressed in pale green, stood Eunice.
      尤妮斯穿着浅绿色的衣服站在后面不起眼的地方。
  2. ADJ-GRADED （脸色）苍白的
    If someone looks pale, their face looks a lighter colour than usual, usually because they are ill, frightened, or shocked.
    1. She looked pale and tired...
      她看起来脸色苍白憔悴。
    2. He went deathly pale.
      他面如死灰。
  3. VERB 显得逊色；相形失色
    If one thing pales in comparison with another, it is made to seem much less important, serious, or good by it.
    1. When someone you love has a life-threatening illness, everything else pales in comparison.
      你爱的人得了致命疾病时，其他一切事情都显得不那么重要了。
    2. ...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.
      让其他同类剧相形见绌的肥皂剧
  4. PHRASE （行为举止）出格的，越轨的
    If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
    1. This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.
      这种事情真是不可接受。
    2. ...beyond the pale of acceptable human behaviour.
      超出可接受的人类行为的范围
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双语例句

  1. As we age, our skin becomes paler.
    随着年龄的增长，我们的皮肤愈见苍白。
  2. There she is, paler and thinner than in her Kentucky home, with a world of quiet sorrow lying under the shadow of her long eyelashes.
    可不就是她吗！面庞比在肯特基故乡时苍白消瘦，无限忧郁隐藏在她眉宇之间。
  3. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to become any paler.
    他的面色本来已经煞白，不可能变得更苍白了。
  4. The cheeks are paler, the teeth more regular, the red lips thinner than is usual in a country-bred girl.
    同一个寻常的乡村女孩子相比，她的脸颊更洁白，牙齿更整齐，红色的嘴唇更薄。
  5. They went to the rocks and sat down looking out across the bay while the sky got paler and paler and the stars disappeared except for one very bright one low down and near the horizon.
    他们走到岩石那儿，坐下来，眺望着海湾对面，这时天色越来越亮，除了一颗很亮的星，一颗低得接近地平线的星以外，其他的星星都看不见了。
  6. The light touched to russet the rings of dark hair escaping from her braids, and made her pale face paler.
    亮光使她发辫上散逸出的浅黑色发鬈变成了黄褐色，并使她苍白的脸色更加苍白。
  7. Dressed in a sheepskin coat, with a fur cap on his head and his mouth bound up with a handkerchief, he seemed paler and thinner than ever.
    克雷里卓夫身穿土皮袄，头戴羔皮帽，嘴上包着一块手绢，看上去更加消瘦和苍白。
  8. North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers.
    北美的一种兰花，和小紫玉凤花相似，但花更大、颜色略浅。
  9. The spy, who was pale, turned paler, and asked him how he dared&.
    那脸色苍白的密探脸色更苍白了，他问他怎么竟然敢。
  10. Sultanas are paler in colour than currants and raisins.
    白色无籽葡萄干比加仑子和一般葡萄干颜色浅。
  11. Mix some more white in to make the paint paler.
    再搀些白颜料使涂料浅些。
  12. Adults are brown or gray with a paler belly.
    成鱼褐色或灰色，腹部色淡。
  13. The air was thin and the sky was paler, and every day the earth paled.
    空气稀薄，天空更加苍白，大地也一天天变得苍白起来。
  14. Amethyst gems often becomes paler if kept out in the sun.
    紫晶宝石往往成为苍白，如果保持在阳光下。
  15. Paler than me, the albino.
    比我这个白化病人还要白。
  16. On nights when the moon is more than a quarter full, moonlight shines through the holes casting its own paler pattern.
    时，月亮的夜晚比一个季度全面，更透过月光照耀孔铸造自己的苍白的模式。
  17. Upperwing has pale greyish-white primary bases and often pale rufous or yellowish-brown forewing, paler than dark grey flight-feathers.
    翼上初级飞羽呈现灰白色，翼前缘经常为淡棕色或黄棕色，比飞羽的深灰色要浅。
  18. My heart was paler later, I didn't like the rules and the life never changed.
    后来，我的心情越来越糟糕，我不喜欢那些规则，和一成不变的生活。
  19. Standard blue means navy, with no room for paler shades.
    标准蓝色代表海军，不带暗色。
  20. This was not the neighbour's dog; it was paler and of a different shape.
    这不是邻居的狗；它的毛色淡一些，模样也不同。
  21. For the first two or three days lochia is bloodstained and then becomes paler in color.
    在头2-3天，恶露深有血液，以后颜色变白。
  22. After this the young woman became thinner and paler.
    妇人是一天天地黄瘦了。
  23. Yes, and getting a little deal paler than you were.
    是呀，比以前看起来苍白一些了。
  24. The grass was paler than she remembered, a wan and sickly green on the verge of going yellow.
    草丛的颜色比起她印象中要更为黯淡，一片片濒临变黄的病怏怏的绿。
  25. Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan.
    严重的花园害虫，褐色的壳上有Z形条纹；几乎是四海为家。
  26. Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage. any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts.
    主要是东半球的大型涉水鸟，典型的黑白色羽毛。多种黑色羽毛、苍白色腹部的小型海鸥。
  27. This was not the neighbours'dog; it was paler and a different shape.
    这不是邻居家的狗，它的颜色更浅一些，而且形状也不同。
  28. Reds and yellows are warm colors that attract attention and stand forward from paler flowers.
    红色和黄色是引起注意的暖色，并能够在淡色的花朵前更显眼。
  29. Presumed non-hepatic morph adult Lesser Cuckoos have shown this same contrast, between a very dark rump ( which does not contrast with the tail) and a paler upper back.
    假设非赤色型的小杜鹃也会出现这样的对比：暗色的腰部（与尾羽不形成对比）和比较淡色的上背部。
  30. Nora's face had gone a shade paler, but she didn't say a word.
    劳拉的脸变得更白，可是她没有说一个字。
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