paler

英 [ˈpeɪlə]

美 [ˈpeɪlər]

adj.  灰白的; 苍白的; 白皙的; 浅色的; 淡色的; 暗淡的; 微弱的
pale的比较级

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

双语例句

• Nora's face had gone a shade paler, but she didn't say a word.
  劳拉的脸变得更白，可是她没有说一个字。
• He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to become any paler.
  他的面色本来已经煞白，不可能变得更苍白了。
• Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage. any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts.
  主要是东半球的大型涉水鸟，典型的黑白色羽毛。多种黑色羽毛、苍白色腹部的小型海鸥。
• North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers.
  北美的一种兰花，和小紫玉凤花相似，但花更大、颜色略浅。
• The cheeks are paler, the teeth more regular, the red lips thinner than is usual in a country-bred girl.
  同一个寻常的乡村女孩子相比，她的脸颊更洁白，牙齿更整齐，红色的嘴唇更薄。
• Adults are brown or gray with a paler belly.
  成鱼褐色或灰色，腹部色淡。
• Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan.
  严重的花园害虫，褐色的壳上有Z形条纹；几乎是四海为家。
• For the first two or three days lochia is bloodstained and then becomes paler in color.
  在头2-3天，恶露深有血液，以后颜色变白。
• The grass was paler than she remembered, a wan and sickly green on the verge of going yellow.
  草丛的颜色比起她印象中要更为黯淡，一片片濒临变黄的病怏怏的绿。
• Mix some more white in to make the paint paler.
  再搀些白颜料使涂料浅些。