| 单词 | pale |
| 释义 | pale (once / 70 pages) 1n 2adjv 3adj After a long summer in the pool and the bright sun, your favorite rainbow-colored beach swimsuit will probably end up pale and faded. Pale means "having little color." When something's light colored, you can describe it as pale, like a pale light shining in the kitchen at night, or a person's pale face when they're suffering from the flu. Pale is also a verb that means "to become pale," so you could say that you saw your friend's face pale at the news that her favorite bakery had gone out of business. Don't make the mistake of confusing pale with its homophone, pail, which means "bucket." WORD FAMILYpale: pale-colored, paled, palely, paleness, paler, pales, palest, pallor, paly+/pallor: pallors USAGE EXAMPLESHer pale hands stretch forward from swirls of black cloth. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) But as bad as those floods were, they paled in comparison to the epic floods that hit southern Louisiana in August. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) This one bore pale red fruit that was unusually sweet, even when still green and the size of a walnut. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n a wooden strip forming part of a fence 2Syn|Hyper picket strip thin piece of wood or metal 1adj abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress Syn pallid, wan colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful 2adj (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble the pale light of a half moon a pale sun the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street the pale (or wan) stars Syn pallid, sick, wan weak wanting in physical strength 3adj lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness a pale rendition of the aria pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender Syn pallid colorless, colourless lacking in variety and interest 4adj not full or rich high, pale, pure and lovely song Syn thin (of sound) lacking resonance or volume 5v turn pale, as if in fear 3Syn|Hyper blanch, blench color, colour, discolor, discolour change color, often in an undesired manner adj very light colored; highly diluted with white pale seagreen pale blue eyes Syn light, light-colored (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent |
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