paling

noun

1. 尖木桩；尖铁条；围栏
   a metal or wooden post that is pointed at the top; a fence made of these posts

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

1. The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
   她仍旧沿着花园的围栅走，不久便走过了一道园门。
2. "Do you think&" she began, paling as she thought of the mills and store.
   “你认为&”她问，因为她想起自己经营的木材厂商店，脸都发白了。
3. I am glad to see that these two girls paling ip so well.
   看见这两个女孩那么要好，我感到十分高兴。
4. It is possible to ensure that the up-down limit joint control of buffer gas tank is realized by using the safety paling, that height of the buffer gas tank controlled and economic operation of the compressed machines achieved by frequency conversion device.
   通过安全栅使缓冲气柜高、低限连锁，可保证气柜的安全运行；利用变频装置实现了缓冲气柜的高度控制和排送机的经济运行。
5. Iron deficiency causes interveinal chlorosis, mesophyll yellowing or paling and leaf size reduction and, if severe enough, retards the growth of the plants and may even cause their death, thus resulting in great losses to agricultural production.
   植物缺铁，叶片脉间失绿，叶肉发黄甚至变白，叶片缩小，如果缺铁症状严重，会引起生长停滞甚至死亡，给农业生产造成严重损失。

noun

1. a fence made of upright pickets

   Synonym:    picket fence