pales
英 [peɪlz]
美 [peɪlz]
v. 变得比平常白; 变苍白
pale的第三人称单数
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.- Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
灰白的天空中满是迁徙的飞鸟。 - As we age, our skin becomes paler.
随着年龄的增长,我们的皮肤愈见苍白。 - ...a circle of pale light.
淡淡的光晕 - Paleis also a combining form.
(亦可用于构词) - ...a pale blue sailor dress...
浅蓝色水手服 - 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。
- Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
- 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.- She looked pale and tired...
她看起来脸色苍白憔悴。 - He went deathly pale.
他面如死灰。
- She looked pale and tired...
- 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.- 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。 - ...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.
让其他同类剧相形见绌的肥皂剧
- When someone you love has a life-threatening illness, everything else pales in comparison.
- 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.- This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.
这种事情真是不可接受。 - ...beyond the pale of acceptable human behaviour.
超出可接受的人类行为的范围
- This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.
双语例句
- The size of the Asian hedge fund market pales in comparison with the US and European markets.
与美国和欧洲市场相比,亚洲对冲基金市场的规模相形见绌。 - He joked that his own parents 'retirement as Florida snowbirds pales in comparison.
他开玩笑说,自己父母退休后在佛罗里达州的云游生活,与坎贝尔夫妇相比简直是小巫见大巫。 - The cost pales into insignificance when compared with the damage done to his reputation
与对他声誉造成的损伤相比,这一代价就变得微不足道了。 - The peak devil's frown, despite its forbidding name, pales beside some of the mountains we have climbed.
“鬼见愁”这个名字听来令人生畏,但比起我们爬过的一些高山来,简直相形见绌。 - She pales in comparison with you.
与你相比她显得黯然失色。 - She pales the others with her beauty.
她的美丽使众人黯然失色。 - Indeed, television is superior to newspapers in vividness and quickness, but it pales beside B in many other aspects.
确实,在生动和快捷方面电视比报纸优越,但在其他方面却比报纸逊色。 - She pales and turns away, shoulders trembling.
她脸色发白,转过身去,肩膀颤抖着。 - Her beauty pales beside her mother's.
她的美貌和她母亲相比就逊色了。 - The loss of perquisites enjoyed by government officials and business executives pales in comparison to the plight of refugees in many war-torn countries.
与许多饱受战争创伤的国家的难民所处的困境相比,政府官员和商业管理者失去所享受的特权就相形见绌了。