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paleness

/peyl/US // peɪl //UK // (peɪl) //

苍白,脸色苍白,苍白无力,苍白的

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    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.
v.无主动词 verb
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    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.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to make pale.

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Examples

  • 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.