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：
-- Clifford sat in the pale sun, with the light on his smooth, rather blond hair, his reddish full face inscrutable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it seemed to be a pale transparent face, quick in expression, though not beautiful in feature, its soft hazel eyes excepted.
-- There, too, among unusual bottle-racks and pale slants of light from the yard above, was the strong room stored with old ledgers, which had as musty and corrupt a smell as if they were regularly balanced, in the dead small hours, by a nightly resurrection of old book-keepers.
-- He was dirtily and meanly dressed, in a threadbare coat, once blue, reaching to his ankles and buttoned to his chin, where it vanished in the pale ghost of a velvet collar.
-- 'Very much,' said Arthur, withdrawing his eyes from the delicate head beginning to droop and the pale face with a new solicitude stealing over it.
-- 'Before I say anything else,' Little Dorrit began, sitting before the pale fire, and raising her eyes again to the face which in its harmonious look of interest, and pity, and protection, she felt to be a mystery far above her in degree, and almost removed beyond her guessing at; 'may I tell you something, sir?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners.
-- Beth did look, and turned pale with delight and surprise, for there stood a little cabinet piano, with a letter lying on the glossy lid, directed like a sign board to 'Miss Elizabeth March.'
-- During the bustle Jo had scarcely spoken but flown about, looking pale and wild, with her things half off, her dress torn, and her hands cut and bruised by ice and rails and refractory buckles.
-- They tried to be calm, poor things, as their mother sat up, looking pale but steady, and put away her grief to think and plan for them.
-- The big trunk stood ready in the hall, Mother's cloak and bonnet lay on the sofa, and Mother herself sat trying to eat, but look-ing so pale and worn with sleeplessness and anxiety that the girls found it very hard to keep their resolution.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pale Usher threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now.
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.
-- Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
-- I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, 'Let me see the child, and die.'
-- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
-- said the old gentleman, 'you look pale and alarmed.
-- A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss de Bourgh was pale and sickly; her features, though not plain, were insignifi-cant; and she spoke very little, except in a low voice, to Mrs. Jenkinson, in whose appearance there was nothing remark-able, and who was entirely engaged in listening to what she said, and placing a screen in the proper direction before her eyes.
-- His complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance of his mind was vis-ible in every feature.
-- Her pale face and impetuous man-ner made him start, and before he could recover himself to speak, she, in whose mind every idea was superseded by Lydia's situation, hastily exclaimed, 'I beg your pardon, but I must leave you.
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