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pale [peil]
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
[医] 苍白的, 淡色的
pale
[ noun ]
[ adj ]
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
<noun.artifact>
[ adj ]
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- not full or rich
<adj.all>
pale seagreen
pale blue eyes
<adj.all>
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
a pallid sky
the pale (or wan) stars
the wan light of dawn
<adj.all>
a pale rendition of the aria
pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender
a pallid performance
<adj.all>
the pallid face of the invalid
her wan face suddenly flushed
<adj.all>
high, pale, pure and lovely song
Pale \Pale\ (p[=a]l), a. [Compar. {Paler} (p[=a]l"[~e]r);
superl. {Palest}.] [F. p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L.
pallere to be or look pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Fallow}, {pall},
v. i., {Pallid}.]
1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as,
a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. ``Pale as a forpined
ghost.'' --Chaucer.
Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton.
They are not of complexion red or pale. --T.
Randolph.
2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim;
as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler. --Shak.
Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to
encompass; to fence off.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paled} (p[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Paling}.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pole} a
stake, and 1st {Pallet}.]
1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or
fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or
inclosing; a picket.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
--Mortimer.
2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
fence; a palisade. ``Within one pale or hedge.''
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. ``To
walk the studious cloister's pale.'' --Milton. ``Out of
the pale of civilization.'' --Macaulay.
4. Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not
enclosed or demarcated.
[PJC]
5. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.
6. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad
perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant
from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
7. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.
8. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
fastened.
{English pale}, {Irish pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory
in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English
conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period
after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172.
See note, below.
{beyond the pale} outside the limits of what is allowed or
proper; also, outside the limits within which one is
protected. --Spencer.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English
law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of
the English was restricted, for some centuries after
the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of
Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties
palatine, and this region became subsequently known as
the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.
[Century Dict., 1906]
superl. {Palest}.] [F. p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L.
pallere to be or look pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Fallow}, {pall},
v. i., {Pallid}.]
1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as,
a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. ``Pale as a forpined
ghost.'' --Chaucer.
Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton.
They are not of complexion red or pale. --T.
Randolph.
2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim;
as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler. --Shak.
Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to
encompass; to fence off.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paled} (p[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Paling}.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak.
Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pole} a
stake, and 1st {Pallet}.]
1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or
fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or
inclosing; a picket.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
--Mortimer.
2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
fence; a palisade. ``Within one pale or hedge.''
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. ``To
walk the studious cloister's pale.'' --Milton. ``Out of
the pale of civilization.'' --Macaulay.
4. Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not
enclosed or demarcated.
[PJC]
5. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.
6. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad
perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant
from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
7. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.
8. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
fastened.
{English pale}, {Irish pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory
in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English
conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period
after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172.
See note, below.
{beyond the pale} outside the limits of what is allowed or
proper; also, outside the limits within which one is
protected. --Spencer.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English
law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of
the English was restricted, for some centuries after
the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of
Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties
palatine, and this region became subsequently known as
the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.
[Century Dict., 1906]
Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} (-r[i^]z).
1. (Law)
(a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction
in his own right, and not by deputation.
(b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in
matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
perform divine service for condemned criminals and
assist in preparing them for death.
(c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the
powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's salework. --Shak.
3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown
into an ordinary. --Bacon.
4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
other ordinaries. --Sir W.
Scott.
5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for
all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction
from one where each dish is separately charged; a table
d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
dining room. --Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a
coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
flowers of style. --Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
peddlers and to ordinaries. --Bancroft.
6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or
ten which are in constant use. The {bend}, {chevron},
{chief}, {cross}, {fesse}, {pale}, and {saltire} are
uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include
bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See {Subordinary}.
{In ordinary}.
(a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and
serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An
ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
foreign court.
(b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a
naval vessel.
{Ordinary of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass
which is the same every day; -- called also the {canon of
the Mass}.
1. (Law)
(a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction
in his own right, and not by deputation.
(b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in
matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
perform divine service for condemned criminals and
assist in preparing them for death.
(c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the
powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's salework. --Shak.
3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown
into an ordinary. --Bacon.
4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
other ordinaries. --Sir W.
Scott.
5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for
all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction
from one where each dish is separately charged; a table
d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
dining room. --Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a
coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
flowers of style. --Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
peddlers and to ordinaries. --Bancroft.
6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or
ten which are in constant use. The {bend}, {chevron},
{chief}, {cross}, {fesse}, {pale}, and {saltire} are
uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include
bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See {Subordinary}.
{In ordinary}.
(a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and
serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An
ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
foreign court.
(b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a
naval vessel.
{Ordinary of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass
which is the same every day; -- called also the {canon of
the Mass}.
- These days you also see groups of young Soviet sailors trudging through town while their ships dock, their beribboned hats shadowing pale faces.
- In the bass role of Emperor Altoum, Franz Hawlata delivered a brilliant cameo and sang beautifully. Helene Perraguin was a rather pale Adelma, and Bruce Brewer no longer has the voice for Truffaldino.
- Many of you know or grow the pale yellow flowers of Rose Canary Bird which is so good in a pot or tub.
- I could see that he had turned pale and was gasping for air.
- Readers with Plantfinders might share my enthusiasm for Adenophora Tashiroi, which comes from Japan and covers itself in pale grey-blue flowers like small lampshades.
- She is still wearing Emma's look of pale anomie, as of one struck by Life while crossing its busy road without looking.
- The court decision expanding state authority is expected to make the controversy over restrictions like parental consent pale beside the battles to come.
- Kennedy looked solemn as he entered the chamber, strode past the American flag, stood before the pale marble columns and took his seat at the end of the row of nine justices.
- "God will curse and scorch with hellfire the pale faces which harbor evil for the nation.
- But those dollars at risk pale in comparison to the investment required to make and ship spring goods to Campeau stores.
- Pretty, very pale, dry and scented. Bouvier Trockenbeerenauslese 1989 Pounds 5.85 (half).
- Tamales are made from ground cornmeal, which is usually pale beige or white, and filled with sweets, meat or cheese.
- The left pilloried them as "pale Republicans" and a "conservative white caucus."
- It is only a foot-high when in flower and, despite the books, appears to be completely happy in full sun and a stony soil. Beside it, I had a group of the various Parahebes in white and pale milk-blue flowers.
- Best of all is Michael Ginsborg's sharply cursive, linear image, as taut as a carriage spring, pale red on paler pink and orange.
- There is a magical passage in the slow movement, when three instruments wind down gently over a cello pedal before the restatement of the theme; but the theme itself might have been penned by one of Elgar's pale tors.
- Despite the rebound, the quarter's underwriting fees pale compared with the market's heyday.
- The jury has spoken." North, 45, was pale and smiling nervously as he entered the courtroom where his trial began with jury selection more than three months ago.
- He lives with his girlfriend, Karen Jones, in a rented bungalow in the West country looking out at Glastonbury Tor. I discovered a normally intelligent, softly-spoken 40-year-old with a pale face and innocent, grey-blue eyes.
- Woodfield Brothers, of Tiddington, near Stratford-upon-Avon (0789-205618), crowned their superb display of new lupins with a pale pinkish number called Gloria Hunniford.
- The lights of the boulevard cast a pale shadow over the protesters faces.
- For a really icy chill, consider Mr. Bergman's description of Greta Garbo past her prime: "Her mouth was ugly, a pale slit surrounded by transverse wrinkles.
- They also suggest that this year's horror stories pale when compared to some in campaigns past.
- Blues, yellows, pale pinks and whites form one group in my mind's eye; all or some of them will combine very happily, provided that the yellows are not too strong.
- It has dormer windows and pale blue shutters and front door. It comprises 16 rooms on three floors.
- Still, such concerns will pale if the strong growth in BA's premium traffic continues. This resurgence has helped dispel the worst fears that high-spending passengers would not return after recession.
- To my eye, the flowers are a bit too feeble, best suited to a pussy-cat planting of pastel pinks and pale mauves.
- In the severest form of the disease, albinos have white hair, milky white skin and pale blue eyes.
- Abby, Ginny, 7, and 3-year-old Melissa were half-buried by debris, their pale skin gashed and wispy brown hair matted with blood.
- Reed, pale and dressed in his blue hospital bathrobe, said he last saw Sutherland in February 1989.
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