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

• A face of a transparent paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it. With a few strokes the artist touched off a likeness of my face.
  脸色是透明的苍白，五官轮廓分明，老是板着。画家用几笔就勾划出了我的脸部的轮廓。
• His face had a deadly paleness after the accident.
  事故发生以后，他的脸死一般苍白。
• 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。
• 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。
• A paleness overspread her face.
  她脸上一阵苍白。
• 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。
• Sometimes they are kept in virtual darkness because there is a rather irrational belief that this contributes to the paleness of the meat.
  有时候他们被关在完全黑暗的环境中，因为普遍盛传着一种无稽的秘方，让牧农们相信，这样有助于减低肉质的血色。
• 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。
• Symptoms are unusual paleness and tiredness.
  症状是异常的苍白和疲劳。
• Neither in Scandinavia, where I grew up, nor in America, where I lived for a while, did I ever stumble upon the idea of paleness as a beautiful feature.
  不管是在我长大的斯堪的纳维亚，还是在我曾经呆过的美国，我都没发现人们把苍白当成美的特征。