out of the pale的意思|示意

"You speak in riddles, learned Sir," said the pale minister, glancing aside out of the window.

“你是在打哑谜，博学的先生，”牧师斜瞥着窗外说。

Second, the aircraft-makers’ subsidies pale by comparison with those doled out by governments on both sides of the Atlantic in the past year.

其次，在过去一年中，大西洋两岸的飞机制造商得到的补助金，与其他救济金相比一样少的可怜。

Across the windows hung thin curtains of muslim embroidered with beetles' wings and with tiny seed-pearls, and as it passed by a pale-faced Circassian looked out and smiled at me.

窗户上挂着棉布薄纱，绣着昆虫翅膀和小粒珍珠。 而当我们擦肩而过时，一个顶着苍白面孔的切尔克斯人望出来并对我微笑。