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But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Asian women prefer to avoid the sun, because being pale or white is considered beautiful, whereas a tanned complexion is considered much more beautiful and sexy in the West.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

He looked very pale, but he didn't cry.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

a pale complexion

白皙的面容

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pale with fear

害怕得脸色苍白

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to go/turn pale

变得苍白

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You look pale. Are you OK?

你气色不好，没事吧？

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The ordeal left her looking pale and drawn .

这场磨难使她看来苍白而又憔悴。

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pale blue eyes

淡蓝色的眼睛

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a paler shade of green

淡绿的色调

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a pale sky

天色昏暗

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the cold pale light of dawn

破晓时分的鱼白寒光

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Mark stared palely (= with a pale face) at his plate.

马克面色苍白，呆呆地望着盘子。

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She (= her face) paled visibly at the sight of the police car.

她一看见警车，脸色就刷地变白了。

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The blue of the sky paled to a light grey.

天空的蓝色渐变成了浅灰色。

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Last year's riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence.

去年的骚乱与最近这次暴乱相比，可说是小巫见大巫。

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His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.

他的话显然过分了。

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Migrating birds filled the pale sky...

灰白的天空中满是迁徙的飞鸟。

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As we age, our skin becomes paler.

随着年龄的增长，我们的皮肤愈见苍白。

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She looked pale and tired...

她看起来脸色苍白憔悴。

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He went deathly pale.

他面如死灰。

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When someone you love has a life-threatening illness, everything else pales in comparison.

你爱的人得了致命疾病时，其他一切事情都显得不那么重要了。

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...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.

让其他同类剧相形见绌的肥皂剧

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This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.

这种事情真是不可接受。

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...beyond the pale of acceptable human behaviour.

超出可接受的人类行为的范围

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Astronomers tacitly assume that stars of the same luminosity and color all have the same mass.

天文学家心照不宣地默认,光度和颜色都相同的恒星具有相同的质量.

辞典例句

来自pallere,苍白的，发白的，来自PIE*pel,苍白的，发白的，词源同fallow,pallor.

来自拉丁语palus,栅栏，围篱，桩，来自PIE*pag,固定，标记，词源同page,pole,palisade.拼 写比较rule,regulate.

1. In the background, dressed in pale green, stood Eunice.

尤妮斯穿着浅绿色的衣服站在后面不起眼的地方。

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2. At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.

陆地在地平线处变成了一片浅灰。

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3. Pale colours are much more in vogue than autumnal bronzes and coppers.

浅色比黄褐色和红棕色这些秋季色彩更流行。

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4. She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun.

她把一头稀疏的浅黄色头发向后梳，挽成了个圆髻。

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5. This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.

这种事情真是不可接受。

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pale

pale: English has two words pale. The adjective [13] comes via Old French from Latin pallidus (source also of English appal – originally ‘turn pale’ – pall ‘become wearisome’ [14] – originally a shortening of appal – and pallid [17]). This was a derivative of the verb pallēre ‘be pale’, which was descended from *pol-, *pel-, the same Indo-European base as produced English fallow.

The noun pale [14] comes via Old French pal from Latin pālus ‘stake’. This was a descendant of the base *pāg- ‘fix’, which also produced English pagan, page, and pole ‘stick’. English palisade [17] comes ultimately from *pālicea, a Vulgar Latin derivative of pālus, and the closely related Latin pāla ‘spade’ produced English palette [17] and pallet [16].
=> appal, fallow, pall, pallid; pagan, page, palette, palisade, pallet, pole, travel

pale (adj.)

early 14c., from Old French paile "pale, light-colored" (12c., Modern French pâle), from Latin pallidus "pale, pallid, wan, colorless," from pallere "be pale, grow pale," from PIE *pel- (2) "pale" (see pallor). Pale-face, supposed North American Indian word for "European," is attested from 1822.

pale (n.)

early 13c. (c. 1200 in Anglo-Latin), "stake, pole, stake for vines," from Old French pal and directly from Latin palus "stake, prop, wooden post," related to pangere "to fix or fasten" (see pact).

From late 14c. as "fence of pointed stakes;" figurative sense of "limit, boundary, restriction" is from c. 1400. Barely surviving in beyond the pale and similar phrases. Meaning "the part of Ireland under English rule" is from 1540s, via sense of "territory held by power of a nation or people" (mid-15c.).

pale (v.)

late 14c., "become pale; appear pale" (also, in Middle English, "to make pale"), from Old French paleir (12c.) or from pale (adj.). Related: Paled; paling.