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ADJ-GRADED
浅色的；灰白的 If something is pale, it is very light in colour or almost white.
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Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
灰白的天空中满是迁徙的飞鸟。
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As we age, our skin becomes paler.
随着年龄的增长，我们的皮肤愈见苍白。
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...a circle of pale light.
淡淡的光晕
- Pale is also a combining form.（亦可用于构词）
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...a pale blue sailor dress...
浅蓝色水手服
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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。
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ADJ-GRADED
（脸色）苍白的 If someone looks pale, their face looks a lighter colour than usual, usually because they are ill, frightened, or shocked.
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She looked pale and tired...
她看起来脸色苍白憔悴。
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He went deathly pale.
他面如死灰。
paleness
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...his paleness when he realized that he was bleeding.
他意识到自己在流血时的苍白脸色
3.
VERB
显得逊色；相形失色 If one thing pales in comparison with another, it is made to seem much less important, serious, or good by it.
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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。
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...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.
让其他同类剧相形见绌的肥皂剧
- Noun
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1. a fence made of upright pickets
- synonym： picket fence
