| 释义 |
pale-faced, a.|ˈpeɪlfeɪst|
Having a pale face; pale in complexion, or (fig.) in aspect.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 569 Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward. 1635Quarles Embl. ii. ii. 15 The pale-faced lady of the black-ey'd night. 1758Goldsm. Mem. Protestant (1895) I. 192 He was humped-back'd, pale-faced [etc.]. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. lviii. 229 The Indian's inferiority to their pale-faced neighbours. 1893Scribner's Mag. June 743/1 The vast wealth of pale-faced lotos and shrinking water-lilies. |