| 单词 | pale |
| 释义 | pale pale1 —palely, adv. —paleness, n. /payl/, adj., paler, palest, v. , paled, paling. adj. 1. lacking intensity of color; colorless or whitish: a pale complexion. 2. of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow. 3. not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon. 4. faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest. v.i. , v.t. 5. to make or become pale: to pale at the sight of blood. [1250-1300; ME < MF < L pallidus PALLID] Syn. 1. PALE, PALLID, WAN imply an absence of color, esp. from the human countenance. PALE implies a faintness or absence of color, which may be natural when applied to things, the pale blue of a violet, but when used to refer to the human face usually means an unnatural and often temporary absence of color, as arising from sickness or sudden emotion: pale cheeks. PALLID, limited mainly to the human countenance, implies an excessive paleness induced by intense emotion, disease, or death: the pallid lips of the dying man. WAN implies a sickly paleness, as after a long illness: wan and thin; the suggestion of weakness may be more prominent than that of lack of color: a wan smile. 5. blanch, whiten. Ant. 1. ruddy. 5. darken. pale2 /payl/, n. , v. , paled, paling. n. 1. a stake or picket, as of a fence. 2. an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure. 3. an enclosed area. 4. limits; bounds: outside the pale of his jurisdiction. 5. a district or region within designated bounds. 6. (cap.) Also called English Pale, Irish Pale. a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors. 7. an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon. 8. Shipbuilding. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction. 9. beyond the pale, beyond the limits of propriety, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.: Their public conduct is certainly beyond the pale. v.t. 10. to enclose with pales; fence. 11. to encircle or encompass. [1300-50; ME (north), OE pal < L palus stake. See PEEL3, POLE1] |
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