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

• Nevertheless, after my first summer in Shanghai in which I, like many Chinese, had avoided the harsh rays of sun, I actual felt a tad "locally fashionable" with the extra paleness.
  然而，我在上海呆了一个夏天后，也象许多中国人一样，开始躲避强烈的阳光，实际上，我感觉自己的面色有点儿“本地流行”的那种惨白。
• Deadly paleness, coldness, silence.
  死一样的苍白、冰冷、沉寂。
• 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。
• So wangxiaobo can find a kind of frontal things and meanings in the hardship, frustration and paleness of the living.
  从而能够在生活的艰难和挫折、苍白和荒谬中，寻找到某种意义，寻找到一种正面的东西。
• Symptoms are unusual paleness and tiredness.
  症状是异常的苍白和疲劳。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  我怎吗看见人人用手掐腰，像产难的妇人，脸面都变青了呢。