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ADJ-GRADED
淺色的；灰白的
If something is pale, it is very light in colour or almost white.
例句
Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
灰白的天空中滿是遷徙的飛鳥。
As we age, our skin becomes paler.
隨著年齡的增長，我們的皮膚愈見蒼白。
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ADJ-GRADED
（臉色）蒼白的
If someone looks pale, their face looks a lighter colour than usual, usually because they are ill, frightened, or shocked.
例句
She looked pale and tired...
她看起來臉色蒼白憔悴。
He went deathly pale.
他面如死灰。
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VERB
顯得遜色；相形失色
If one thing pales in comparison with another, it is made to seem much less important, serious, or good by it.
例句
When someone you love has a life-threatening illness, everything else pales in comparison.
你愛的人得了致命疾病時，其他一切事情都顯得不那么重要了。
...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.
讓其他同類劇相形見絀的肥皂劇
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PHRASE
（行為舉止）出格的，越軌的
If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
例句
This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.
這種事情真是不可接受。
...beyond the pale of acceptable human behaviour.
超出可接受的人類行為的范圍