pale
n. 栅栏, 界线, 范围 a. 苍白的, 暗淡的, 无力的 vi. 变苍白, 变暗, 失色 vt. 使变苍白, 使失色, 用栅栏围
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Paleness; pallor.
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A wooden stake; a picket.
1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12, […] if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail […] and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.
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A fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
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Limits, bounds (especially before of).
引申义But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.
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A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
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A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
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The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
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A cheese scoop.
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A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
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A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the Pale of Settlement).
古体 历史
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To turn pale; to lose colour.
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To become insignificant.
不及物12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
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To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
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Light in color.
苍白
白皙
白净
惨白
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
She turned pale and screamed on seeing the spider in the toilet.
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Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
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Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
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Etymology tree Latin palleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin pallidus Old French palebor. Middle English pale English pale From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“to be pale; to grow pale; to fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.
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