pale 的 3 个定义
pal·er, pal·est.
- light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.:She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow.
- not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon.
- faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest.
paled, pal·ing.
- to become pale: to pale at the sight of blood.
- to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else: Platinum is so rare that even gold pales in comparison.
- to make pale.
pale 近义词
light in color or effect
become, make lighter or weakened
更多pale例句
- Better surface disinfection, however, increasingly pales next to worries about air quality on passenger flights.
- Simon says the 2008 financial meltdown “pales in comparison” to the pandemic.
- Though Encantos raised a fresh $2 million in January to expand, that cash influx pales in comparison to the budgets at top ed-tech companies Newsela and Coursera, which have each received more than $50 million in funding.
- On the other hand, VR technologies perhaps only offer a pale imitation of the multi-sensory experiences of life.
- The Genoa museum’s dead specimen is pale blue due to preservation, but it’s now known that the lizard’s natural color is mostly luminous green.
- “He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
- The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
- But the flaws and peccadilloes of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo pale beside the misdeeds of patrons and pontiffs.
- Still, at each stage of jazz history certain kinds of sounds were beyond the pale.
- “I turned completely ashen, completely pale,” Beck remembers.
- Louis stood firm, though pale and respectful, before the resentful gaze of Elizabeth.
- Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
- She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.
- He returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.
- “You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.