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

• Do not wait is old, recalls when own life in memory such paleness and emptiness!
  不要等老的时候，回忆自己的人生时记忆中那样的苍白和空荡！
• 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。
• 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。
• Symptoms include tiredness, paleness, and lethargy.
  症状包括疲倦、脸色苍白、没有精神。
• 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。
• History classes in elementary school did mention that the royalty found paleness as evidence of wealth because it indicated that you did not have to work in the fields.
  小学的历史课中确实提到过皇室把面色苍白作为富有的象征，因为皮肤白皙暗示出不必在田间劳作。
• None could look at the face of the High Priest without being deeply touched, for his appearance and his paleness revealed the anguish of his soul.
  凡看见大司祭面容的人，没有不心中悲伤的，因为他的神气和他面色的改变，都明显他心灵上的痛苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。