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1. Oxford Dictionary

   pale

   • IPA[peɪl]

   英式

   • adj.
     light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment；(of a person or their complexion) having less colour than usual, typically as a result of shock, fear, or ill health
   • v.
     become pale in one's face from shock or fear；seem or become less important

   • verb: pale, 3rd person present: pales, gerund or present participle: paling, past tense: paled, past participle: paled

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment choose pale floral patterns for walls 同義詞 light, light-coloured, pastel, neutral, light-toned, ... 更多muted, subtle, soft, low-key, restrained, faded, bleached, dusty, whitish, washed out, insipid
   • ▪ (of a person or their complexion) having less colour than usual, typically as a result of shock, fear, or ill health she looked pale and drawn 同義詞 white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, ... 更多colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost, milky, creamy, cream, ivory, milk white, alabaster, fair, light-skinned, fair-skinned, informallike death warmed up, peely-wally, rareetiolated, lymphatic反義詞 flushed, rosy
   • ▪ (of a light) not strong or bright a pale dawn 同義詞 dim, faint, weak, feeble, thin, ... 更多watery, wan反義詞 dark, bright
   • 2. inferior or unimpressive the new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses 同義詞 inferior, poor, feeble, weak, insipid, ... 更多wishy-washy, vapid, bland, puny, flat, inadequate, ineffectual, ineffective, half-hearted, lame, tame, uninspired, unimaginative, lacklustre, spiritless, lifeless, anaemic, bloodless, informalpathetic, rareetiolated

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. become pale in one's face from shock or fear I paled at the thought of what she might say 同義詞 go/turn white, grow/turn/become pale, blanch, blench, lose colour, ... 更多whiten, lighten
   • 2. seem or become less important all else pales by comparison 同義詞 decrease in importance, lose significance, pale into insignificance, fade, dwindle, ... 更多diminish, lessen, dim, lose lustre

   片語

   • pale into insignificance