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

• Nevertheless, after my first summer in Shanghai in which I, like many Chinese, had avoided the harsh rays of sun, I actual felt a tad "locally fashionable" with the extra paleness.
  然而，我在上海呆了一个夏天后，也象许多中国人一样，开始躲避强烈的阳光，实际上，我感觉自己的面色有点儿“本地流行”的那种惨白。
• His face had a deadly paleness after the accident.
  事故发生以后，他的脸死一般苍白。
• But its ideally content and spirit connotation appears superficial and paleness owing to the cutting of Oscar Wilde's work.
  但由于施特劳斯在创作过程中对王尔德原作的删节，使作品的思想内容和精神内涵显得比较肤浅和苍白。
• So wangxiaobo can find a kind of frontal things and meanings in the hardship, frustration and paleness of the living.
  从而能够在生活的艰难和挫折、苍白和荒谬中，寻找到某种意义，寻找到一种正面的东西。
• We sat before the window watching the paleness of light of dawn.
  我们坐在窗前，看着晨曦的微光。
• 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。
• Do not wait is old, recalls when own life in memory such paleness and emptiness!
  不要等老的时候，回忆自己的人生时记忆中那样的苍白和空荡！
• Above towered the white dagoba, its chalky paleness casting a chilly gloom on all around so that the three lakes, despite their man-made adornments, revealed their full northern bleakness.
  白塔却高耸到云间，傻白傻白的把一切都带得冷寂萧索，整个的三海在人工的雕琢中显出北地的荒寒。
• As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun.
  心里的情绪总是要通过身体表面透露出来的，因此他的处境所产生的苍白便透过黄褐的面颊透露了出来，表现出他的灵魂比阳光更为有力。
• 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。