pale at sth
at 后接引起恐惧或震惊的事物，多指脸色发白。
She paled at the sight of the blood.
看到血，她脸色变得苍白。
相形见绌；黯然失色；使变苍白；使暗淡；用栅栏围住；围起；变苍白；失色；用栅栏围起,或像用栅栏围起；环绕；用篱笆隔开。
to become pale; to lose color
变苍白；失色
To turn pale; to lose colour.
用栅栏围起,或像用栅栏围起；环绕；用篱笆隔开。
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
变得微不足道。
To become insignificant.
吓得脸色发白
turn pale, as if in fear
使变苍白；使暗淡
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
一般现在时
She pales in comparison to her sister.
她与妹妹相比相形见绌。
一般过去时
The sky paled as the sun set.
随着太阳下山，天空变得苍白。
现在进行时
His face is paling with fear.
他的脸因恐惧而变得苍白。
规则动词，注意作动词时常用义为‘变苍白’或‘相形见绌’。
Her face paled when she heard the bad news.
听到坏消息时，她的脸色变得苍白。
用法提示：动词pale表示脸色因惊吓或疾病变得苍白。
The colors in the painting paled after years of sunlight exposure.
经过多年阳光照射，画作的颜色变淡了。
用法提示：动词pale表示颜色因光照等失去鲜艳度。
His achievements pale in comparison to hers.
他的成就与她的相比相形见绌。
用法提示：动词pale表示在某方面显得逊色或微不足道。
at 后接引起恐惧或震惊的事物，多指脸色发白。
She paled at the sight of the blood.
看到血，她脸色变得苍白。
用于比较，表示相形见绌，也可说 pale in comparison with sth。
Their problems paled beside those of the flood victims.
与洪灾受害者的困难相比，他们的问题显得微不足道。
固定搭配，表示变得无足轻重、不再重要。
The delays paled into insignificance once the whole project was cancelled.
整个项目被取消后，那些延误就显得微不足道了。
grammar · medium
易错句子Her face pale the moment she saw the blood.
正确表达Her face paled the moment she saw the blood.
这里 pale 是动词，作谓语时必须带时态标记，过去发生的事要用过去式 paled。汉语动词没有时态变化，学习者常直接把原形搬过来，结果句子缺了带时态的谓语。
grammar · medium
易错句子The sky was paleing as the sun rose.
正确表达The sky was paling as the sun rose.
动词 pale 以不发音的 e 结尾，加 -ing 时要先去掉 e，写成 paling，而不是保留 e 写成 paleing；规则与 make→making 相同。
grammar · medium
易错句子His latest film pales in comparison of his earlier ones.
正确表达His latest film pales in comparison with his earlier ones.
表示“相形见绌”时用固定短语 in comparison with（或 to），介词不能用 of。这一义项的 pale 是不及物动词，靠该介词短语引出比较对象，所以改对的关键是把 of 换成 with。
pale 多指脸色失去血色，常与 turn、grow 连用，也可指颜色变淡；fade 强调颜色、光线或记忆慢慢变淡、消退，过程是渐进的。说布料、照片褪色用 fade，说人吓得脸发白用 pale。
pale 是普通用词，指脸色失去血色；blanch 更强调因恐惧或震惊而瞬间变得惨白，语域偏书面，另有“焯蔬菜、漂白”之义，而 pale 没有这个意思。
两者都可用于“变得不重要”这一意义，但搭配不同：pale 常与 beside、in comparison with 连用，表示相形见绌；pall 指某事物因为重复而变得乏味，主语通常是事物，并且不与 beside 搭配。
相形见绌；相比逊色
Their new phone pales in comparison with the one they launched last year.
他们的新手机与去年发布的那款相比相形见绌。
与……相比黯然失色
No other player pales beside her on this team.
在这支队伍里，没有哪位球员能比得上她。
变得微不足道；显得无足轻重
After the earthquake, our money problems paled into insignificance.
地震之后，我们的经济困难就显得微不足道了。
因……而脸色发白
She paled at the news of the accident.
听到事故的消息，她脸色发白。
吓得脸色发白
The child paled with fear when the dog barked.
狗一叫，那孩子吓得脸色发白。
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