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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was not till they had got beyond sight of the fatal spectacle, that, seeing the deadly paleness of jeanie's countenance, he stopped the carriage.
  一直等到他们已完全看不见这幅可怕的景象，并且看到珍妮的面色如死人般的惨白时，他才叫马车停下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Symptoms include tiredness, paleness, and lethargy.
  症状包括疲倦、脸色苍白、没有精神。
• A paleness overspread her face.
  她脸上一阵苍白。
• 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。