c. 1400, from Old French palor "paleness, whiteness" (12c.) and directly from Latin pallor, from pallere "be pale, turn pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE root *pel- (2) "pale; gray" (cognates: Sanskrit palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale;" Greek pelios "livid, dark," polios "gray;" Old English fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown;" Welsh llwyd "gray").
雙語例句
1. My face had a greenish pallor.
我的臉色白中帶綠。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Her cheeks had an unhealthy pallor.
她面色蒼白，顯得虛弱。
來自《權威詞典》
3. He had a sickly green pallor.
他臉色青白,帶有病容.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color.
她如死灰般蒼白的皮膚開始現出淡淡的血色。
來自柯林斯例句
5. " Clouds darken with darkness of rain, Streams pale with pallor of mist . "