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pallor

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Illness & disability
pal·lor /ˈpælə $ -ər/ noun [singular, uncountable]  MICOLOUR/COLORwhen someone’s skin is very pale in a way that makes them look weak or unhealthy 肤色苍白 A sleepless night had added to her pallor. 一夜未眠,她的脸色更加苍白。
Examples from the Corpus
pallorHer skin had a deathly pallor.In her dark-eyed pallor and arrogant bloody-mindedness, she reminded him of Perdita.He watched her, moved by her beauty, worried by her growing pallor.I stared at Minna and saw that her pallor was that of a sick person.He had a bad eye, fixed, with a sinister pallor.She could even see it in this thing, the pallor of it, the fine dust of jet black fur.These include sweating, anxiety, tremulousness, pallor, and sometimes confusion.While the patient was unconscious, was pallor, redness, or cyanosis evident?
Origin pallor (1300-1400) Latin pallere to be pale
pal·lor nounChineseSyllable
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pallor
pallor /ˈpælə $ -ər/ noun [singular, uncountable]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Latin
 Origin: pallere 'to be pale'
when someone’s skin is very pale in a way that makes them look weak or unhealthy:
    A sleepless night had added to her pallor.


pal·lorBrE /ˈpælə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpælər/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] pale colouring of the face, especially because of illness or fear 苍白的脸色(尤指因病或恐惧)Her cheeks had an unhealthy pallor. 她面色苍白,显得虚弱。🔊🔊