paleness

英

美

n.  苍白；暗淡；失色

BNC.37810 / COCA.33007

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 浅色的；灰白的
  If something ispale, 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. Paleis 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。
• ADJ-GRADED （脸色）苍白的
  If someone lookspale, 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。
• VERB 显得逊色；相形失色
  If one thingpalesin 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
• 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 arebeyond 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

英英释义

noun

• being deficient in color
  Synonym:pallidity
• the property of having a naturally light complexion
  Synonym:blondnessfairness
• unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
  Synonym:lividnesslividityluridnesspallidnesspallorwannessachromasia

双语例句

• Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  我怎吗看见人人用手掐腰，像产难的妇人，脸面都变青了呢。
• None could look at the face of the High Priest without being deeply touched, for his appearance and his paleness revealed the anguish of his soul.
  凡看见大司祭面容的人，没有不心中悲伤的，因为他的神气和他面色的改变，都明显他心灵上的痛苦。
• Still, despite brotherhood's strong starring cast, the actors can't hide the paleness of plotline.
  尽管《天堂口》有着强大的影星阵容，但演员们的出色表演还是掩盖不了故事情节的苍白无力。
• To them, paleness symbolizes the winter blues and sickliness.
  对于他们来说，白皮肤意味着多愁和多病。
• The symptoms and signs which occus during an attack, such as palpitations, paleness and excessive sweating coincide with an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system function.
  您突然发作时的病状和体征，如心跳、苍白和过多的血汗等，跟您自主神经系统功能失调是相符的。
• His face had a deadly paleness after the accident.
  事故发生以后，他的脸死一般苍白。
• Trembling and bewildered, she held me fast, but the horror gradually passed from her countenance; its paleness gave place to a glow of shame.
  她又发抖又惊惶，把我抱得紧紧的，可是恐怖渐渐从她脸上消失了；苍白的脸色消失，呈现出羞臊的红晕。
• History classes in elementary school did mention that the royalty found paleness as evidence of wealth because it indicated that you did not have to work in the fields.
  小学的历史课中确实提到过皇室把面色苍白作为富有的象征，因为皮肤白皙暗示出不必在田间劳作。
• She had just begun when Amaranta noticed that Remedios the Beauty was covered all over by an intense paleness.
  她们刚刚动手，阿玛兰塔发现俏姑娘雷麦黛丝突然变得异常紧张和苍白。
• Symptoms are unusual paleness and tiredness.
  症状是异常的苍白和疲劳。