pallid

adj.

1. （尤指因病）苍白的
   pale, especially because of illness
   1. a pallid complexion
      苍白的脸色
2. 暗淡的；微弱的；乏味的
   not strong or bright, and therefore not attractive
   1. a pallid sky
      暗淡的天空

1. ADJ-GRADED 苍白的；无血色的；暗淡的
   Someone or something that is pallid is pale in an unattractive or unnatural way.
   1. ...helpless grief on pallid faces.
      苍白面孔上无助的忧伤
   2. ...pallid grey vapour.
      暗淡的灰白色水蒸气
2. ADJ-GRADED （演出、书籍等）平淡的，乏味的，了无生气的
   You can describe something such as a performance or book as pallid if it is weak or not at all exciting.
   1. ...a pallid account of the future of transport.
      对交通运输前景的平淡描述
   2. ...a pallid unsuccessful romance.
      一段失败的平淡恋情

1. Water and air were pallid.
   水和空气一片暗淡。
2. The pallid, perhaps empty background intensifies the aggravating tonal color of pink that settles uncomfortably in the viewers eyes.
   这种苍白、甚至是空白背景深化了粉红色调，在观者眼中形成不协调。
3. You look a bit pallid do you feel all right?
   你脸色有点苍白&你没事儿吧？
4. Unfortunately, it would also divert water from the region's huge, swampy wildlife refuges, home to black bears and alligators and the pallid sturgeon.
   可不幸的是，工程同样会排走当地野生物保护区庞大的沼泽地里（黑熊、鳄鱼和白鲟鱼栖息处）的水。像克拉林顿和布林克利的沼泽小城黑黢黢的，穷得叮当响。
5. We gazed upon each other with pallid faces.
   我们相互对视着，脸色逐渐暗淡下来。
6. Monte Cristo took off the wig which disfigured him, and let fall his black hair, which added so much to the beauty of his pallid features.
   伯爵脱掉了那改变他相貌的假发，垂下了他那漆黑的头发，使他那苍白的脸顿时英俊了许多。
7. Facing my pallid reflection in the mirror, I was forced to admit that I was lying to myself.
   面对镜子里苍白的自己，我不得不承认是在欺骗自己。
8. While the angels, all pallid and wan.
   这时脸色苍白的天使。
9. A pale rendition of the aria; pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender; a pallid performance.
   这个咏叹调苍白的表演；苍白的散文，带着沉闷的淡紫色甜香；苍白的表演。
10. His dry pallid face often looked gaunt.
    他那张干瘪苍白的脸常常显得憔悴。
11. A stand of magnificent ghost gums with pallid white trunks and drifting thin leaves.
    一片壮丽的橡胶树林，有着苍白的树干和依稀的树叶。
12. On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light.
    她苍白的脸颊和前额染上颜色并散发出光彩。
13. He was a big man, strangely pallid, with scars that often showed among the wrinkles of his face.
    他身材高大；青白脸色，皱纹间时常夹些伤痕；
14. In the grey of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical college.
    在天色泛白的时候，这两个学生在医学院碰了面，惴惴不安的心情反映到了他们苍白憔悴的脸上，而刚刚的骇人经历则仍然使其惊魂未定。
15. A pallid moon shone fitfully between the ragged clouds.
    从败絮般的云层间不时射出一片苍白的月光。
16. The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.
    月亮从云朵后面钻出来，照着尸体那张苍白的脸。
17. Their torches lit the macabre proceedings in a pallid light that danced over their garish rune-covered robes.
    他们穿的长袍上绘着繁复而华丽的符文，折射着火炬那苍白的光线。
18. He was no older than some of the other men, but among the fresh ruddy English skins his stood out dry, pallid.
    他并不比其中某些人老，但是同英国人鲜嫩，红润的皮肤相对照，他的皮肤显得枯干，苍白。
19. Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout.
    暗白色的底栖大头鱼，大眼，嘴巴象鸭子。大眼睛会发金属般绿光的底栖鱼。
20. Small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey.
    美洲热带浅滩中苍白色的小鱼，眼睛长在头顶上；在沙里打洞伺机捕食。
21. By half past four, in the pallid light of dawn, the cement paths and corridors are thronged by these village girls, some of them barefoot.
    四点半之后，当晨光初显的时候，水门汀路上和巷子里，已被这些赤脚的乡下姑娘挤满了。
22. The woman was wearing the flower dress with faded color, the same with the pillow where she laid her pallid handbag.
    老妇人穿了一件褪色花裙子，布料与她垫在挎包下的花边垫子一模一样。
23. The stretch of the Yellowstone where the spill occurred contains sauger, bass catfish, goldeye, trout and, farther downstream, below Miles City, native pallid sturgeon.
    泄漏发生后对黄石河造成污染的区域包括北美凸鲈、低音鲶鱼、鲱鱼和鲑鱼，而且在更远一点的下游，麦尔斯城的下方，还有当地特有的浅色鲟鱼。
24. Of pallid pearls and rubies red as blood;
    血红的宝石，苍白的珍珠；
25. A world in which their pallid acceptance was becoming absurd.
    他们平平淡淡的认可正变成愚蠢可笑的一个世界。
26. His hair had grown very gray in but a few weeks, his step slow, his face pallid, his eyes sunken.
    只在几星期内，他的头发白了许多，他的脚步迟钝，他的面色苍白，眼情凹了下去。
27. San Diego, thin and pallid, wrinkled neck, face a pimple, but his eyes as blue as the sea, there is no frustration of color.
    圣地亚哥瘦削憔悴，后颈满是皱纹，脸上长着疙瘩，但他的双眼像海水一样湛蓝，毫无沮丧之色。
28. Crass's fat face was pallid with fear as he clung tremblingly to his seat.
    克拉斯死抱着座位发抖，他那肥胖的脸吓得铁青。
29. As her illness worsened her skin took on a pallid, greenish, lurid appearance.
    疾病使她的皮肤呈现出一种苍白的、绿色的、可怕的样子。
30. Her siege of illness left her languid and pallid.
    疾病的长期折磨把她弄得倦怠不堪，毫无生气。

  pale grey pallid【导航词义：苍白的】

  pale adj. 苍白的

〔辨析〕指因生病、情绪激动等而脸色苍白或变得苍白的。

  grey adj. 脸色苍白的

〔辨析〕指因疲倦、害怕或生病而脸色苍白的。

  pallid adj. 苍白的

〔辨析〕尤指看上去虚弱或不健康而面无血色的。

adj

1. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
   1. the pallid face of the invalid
   2. her wan face suddenly flushed

   Synonym:    palewan

2. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
   1. a pale rendition of the aria
   2. pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender
   3. a pallid performance

   Synonym:    pale

3. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness
   1. the pale light of a half moon
   2. a pale sun
   3. the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
   4. a pallid sky
   5. the pale (or wan) stars
   6. the wan light of dawn

   Synonym:    palewansick