How to pronounce“pale”in English
I actually spent a lot of time with my eyes closed imagining that I was not standing on Earth, but that I was the whole galaxy looking at our tiny little
pale blue dot. That was a really valuable exercise in writing so that I could write the book, but also to shift my perspective as a person.
But I did let the science guide me through a lot of my decisions when I was writing this book.
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Definitions of “pale”
Light in color.
“I have pale yellow wallpaper.”
Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
“His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.”
To turn pale; to lose colour.
“But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie : […]”
To become insignificant.
“(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.), which allows two months' unlimited first class travel throughout the railway systems of thirteen countries—[...].)”
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