paler

英 [ˈpeɪlə]

美 [ˈpeɪlər]

adj.  灰白的; 苍白的; 白皙的; 浅色的; 淡色的; 暗淡的; 微弱的
pale的比较级

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

双语例句

• Nora's face had gone a shade paler, but she didn't say a word.
  劳拉的脸变得更白，可是她没有说一个字。
• The spy, who was pale, turned paler, and asked him how he dared&.
  那脸色苍白的密探脸色更苍白了，他问他怎么竟然敢。
• Reds and yellows are warm colors that attract attention and stand forward from paler flowers.
  红色和黄色是引起注意的暖色，并能够在淡色的花朵前更显眼。
• There she is, paler and thinner than in her Kentucky home, with a world of quiet sorrow lying under the shadow of her long eyelashes.
  可不就是她吗！面庞比在肯特基故乡时苍白消瘦，无限忧郁隐藏在她眉宇之间。
• This was not the neighbour's dog; it was paler and of a different shape.
  这不是邻居的狗；它的毛色淡一些，模样也不同。
• Yes, and getting a little deal paler than you were.
  是呀，比以前看起来苍白一些了。
• For the first two or three days lochia is bloodstained and then becomes paler in color.
  在头2-3天，恶露深有血液，以后颜色变白。
• This was not the neighbours'dog; it was paler and a different shape.
  这不是邻居家的狗，它的颜色更浅一些，而且形状也不同。
• The light touched to russet the rings of dark hair escaping from her braids, and made her pale face paler.
  亮光使她发辫上散逸出的浅黑色发鬈变成了黄褐色，并使她苍白的脸色更加苍白。
• Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage. any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts.
  主要是东半球的大型涉水鸟，典型的黑白色羽毛。多种黑色羽毛、苍白色腹部的小型海鸥。