英:['peɪllɪ]
美:['peɪllɪ]
英:['peɪllɪ]
美:['peɪllɪ]
词根:pale
adj.pale 苍白的;无力的;暗淡的
palish 稍微苍白的
n.pale 前哨;栅栏;范围
paleness 苍白;淡薄;变青
vi.pale 失色;变苍白;变得暗淡
vt.pale 使失色;使变苍白;用栅栏围
adjective
deficient in color or intensity of color : pallid
a pale complexion
having color of reduced saturation (see saturation sense 4a)
a pale pink
not bright or brilliant : dim
a pale sun shining through the fog
feeble, faint
a pale imitation
verb (1)
intransitive verb
to become pale
transitive verb
to make pale
noun
an area or the limits within which one is privileged or protected (as from censure)
conduct that was beyond the pale
a space or field having bounds : enclosure
The cattle were led into the pale.
a territory or district within certain bounds or under a particular jurisdiction
British culture survived even within the Roman pale.
one of the stakes of a palisade
picket sense 1
a perpendicular stripe on a heraldic shield
archaic palisade, paling
verb (2)
transitive verb
to enclose with pales : fence
combining form
see paleo-
Adjective Middle English pale, paal, palle, borrowed from Anglo-French pale, palle, paille (also continental Old French), borrowed (with loss of unstressed -id-) from Latin pallidus "pale, colorless," formed with the adjective suffix -idus from the same base as pallēre "to be pale or bloodless, have a pale color," pallor "paleness of complexion, loss of color" — more at fallow >entry 1 Verb (1) Middle English palen, borrowed from Anglo-French palir (continental Old French palir, paloïr), going back (with conjugation change) to Latin pallēscere "to grow pale, turn a pale color," inchoative derivative of pallēre "to be pale or bloodless, have a pale color" — more at fallow >entry 1 Noun and Verb (2) Middle English, from Anglo-French pel, pal stake, from Latin palus — more at pole
The first known use of pale was in the 12th century
pale1 of 3adjective
light in color or shade : not vivid
a pale pink
not having the warm skin color of a person in good health : pallid
became pale
not bright or brilliant : dim
pale sunshine
pale2 of 3verb
to make or become pale
pale3 of 3noun
a stake or picket of a fence
an enclosed place
territory within clearly marked bounds or under a particular authority
pale1 of 3adjective
light in color or shade : not vivid
a pale pink
not having the warm skin color of a person in good health : pallid
became pale
not bright or brilliant : dim
pale sunshine
pale2 of 3verb
to make or become pale
pale3 of 3noun
a stake or picket of a fence
an enclosed place
territory within clearly marked bounds or under a particular authority
pale1 of 3adjective
light in color or shade : not vivid
a pale pink
not having the warm skin color of a person in good health : pallid
became pale
not bright or brilliant : dim
pale sunshine
pale2 of 3verb
to make or become pale
pale3 of 3noun
a stake or picket of a fence
an enclosed place
territory within clearly marked bounds or under a particular authority
paleontologynoun
a science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known especially from fossil remains
paleontologynoun
a science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known especially from fossil remains
paleontologynoun
a science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known especially from fossil remains
pale1 of 3adjective
light in color or shade : not vivid
a pale pink
not having the warm skin color of a person in good health : pallid
became pale
not bright or brilliant : dim
pale sunshine
pale2 of 3verb
to make or become pale
pale3 of 3noun
a stake or picket of a fence
an enclosed place
territory within clearly marked bounds or under a particular authority
pale1 of 3adjective
light in color or shade : not vivid
a pale pink
not having the warm skin color of a person in good health : pallid
became pale
not bright or brilliant : dim
pale sunshine
pale2 of 3verb
to make or become pale
pale3 of 3noun
a stake or picket of a fence
an enclosed place
territory within clearly marked bounds or under a particular authority
1 The waterproof exterior is done with a unique suede fabrication, which is both built to last and also sets the look apart in a cool pale gray hue.
2 In the far distance the finest spire in the world soared into palely blue skies.
3 She got out of bed and looked at the oval travelling alarm clock On the wardrobe door, the cream-coloured linen suit hung, showing palely through its polythene.
4 Only a few pink orchids stood palely by the path, looking wistfully out at the ranks of red-purple bugle, whose last flowers, glowing from the top of the bronze column, yearned darkly for the sun.
5 The one who was tugging at the little boy’s leg was thin and palely blond, and her hair was arranged in a straggly pile on the top of her head.
6 Two braids of hair lay on her shoulders, and her skin was palely bronzed and smooth in its oil, as amber without a flaw.
7 One hand clasped to a palely domed forehead, they wrestled to order their words and ideas in rooms where the joy of solitude was poignantly coloured by a whisper of loneliness.
8 The under dress was almost high to the throat, but beneath the black lace the wearer's arms, soft, dimpled, and rounded, were bare to the shoulder, and gleamed palely, revealingly.
9 Short-lived is all our joy, and the sun's rays strike palely on our white mountains.
10 Sometimes a plant in its own habitat Is overcrowded, starved, oppressed and daunted; A palely feeble thing; yet rises quickly, Growing in height and vigor, blooming thickly, When far transplanted.
11 Barbara glanced across the sweep of lawn towards the line of willows that swung their tasseled boughs above the palely flashing river.
12 The stars retreated palely, and, like the light of new-born morning, it flickered over the firmament, and rained down in softly tinted beams of crimson.
13 Some matters, cannot wield, then bestows on by writes palely.
有些事 、 挥不去 、 便赋以淡写.
14 You the complexion look like very palely.
你脸色看起来很苍白。
15 The walls were painted a pale blue.
16 Are you feeling well? You look pale.
17 So Abdallah’s formal priority turns out to be palely ex officio, while the women blaze like necessary suns.
18 The moonlight came palely in at the single window.
19 And in 1952 she returned hastily to Britain from Kenya—slim, delicate and palely beautiful—as the new young Queen upon the death of her greatly loved father.
20 Well—a—perhaps something else;" and she made a fresh start: "'Ah, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?