pale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 苍白的， 灰白的； 浅的， 暗淡的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her cr脙陋pe veilfluttering almost to her heels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- Without this arrest of everything, this standing still of all the pale decayed objects, not even the withered bridal dress on the collapsed form could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long veil so like a shroud.
-- Never questioning for a moment that the house was now empty, I looked in at another window, and found myself, to my great surprise, exchanging a broad stare with a pale young gentleman with red eyelids and light hair.
-- This pale young gentleman quickly disappeared, and reappeared beside me.
-- "Come and fight," said the pale young gentleman.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
-- One day the woman was standing by this win-dow and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapun-zel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.
-- When she heard this she turned pale with rage and envy, and called to one of her servants, and said, 'Take Snowdrop away into the wide wood, that I may never see her any more.'
-- But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Already she's getting as pale as wax, and as heavy as I am.'
-- NO WAY OUTThe Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing themselves over Coketown.
-- Stephen looked at her, saw how pale she was, noted the disorder of her hair, and the red marks of fingers on her forehead, and felt assured that his senses of sight and hearing had been awake.
-- 'I do not pretend to understand these things,' said Mrs. Sparsit, with dignity, 'my lot having been signally cast in a widely different sphere; and Mr. Sparsit, as a Powler, being also quite out of the pale of any such dissensions.
-- He was pale and a little moved in the face his lips especially showed it; but he stood quiet, with his left hand at his chin, waiting to be heard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, when I thought myself at my last gasp, about eleven at night, it being in that region quite dark, we reached the summit of Mount Sneffels!It was in an awful mood of mind, that despite my fatigue, before I descended into the crater which was to shelter us for the night, I paused to behold the sun rise at midnight on the very day of its lowest declension, and enjoyed the spectacle of its ghastly pale rays cast upon the isle which lay sleeping at our feet!
-- Do you not admire these variegated shades of lava, which run through a whole series of colors, from reddish brown to pale yellow--by the most insensible degrees?
-- But there was wanting the dazzling brilliancy, the splendid irradiation of the sun; the pale cold illumination of the moon; the brightness of the stars.
-- The dazzling disk moved on one side, it approached Hans, who looked at it with singular fixity; then it approached my uncle, who cast himself on his knees to avoid it; it came towards me, as I stood pale and shuddering in the dazzling light and heat; it pirouetted round my feet, which I endeavored to withdraw.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was pale and tense, withdrawn into himself, and obstinately de-termined to save his country and his own position, let it be Lloyd George or who it might.
-- No, no, he obviously wasn't an Englishman: the wrong sort of flattish, pale face and bearing; and the wrong sort of grievance.
-- 'As a matter of fact,' said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: 'As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-as-sertion, and you want success.
-- Now it was pale shrimp-colour, with a bluish-white hoar of frost.
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