pall

pall1 /pɔːl $ pɒːl/ verb [intransitiveI] literary

BORINGif something palls, it becomes less interesting or enjoyable because you have experienced it before 〔因体验过而〕失去吸引力，令人发腻

Gradually, the novelty of city life began to pall.

渐渐地，城市生活的新鲜感开始消失了。

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pall• For Sasha, the celebrity lifestyle was beginning to pall.• But the delights of the latter had begun to pall.• It was getting chilly and the novelty of the river palled.• Now even these, by reason of their frequency, were beginning to pall.• Put simply, the thrill of flouting grandfather's wishes was beginning to pall.• However, silent contemplation of the passing forest tended to pall after several unbroken miles of it.• But playing a psycho killer palls fairly soon.• Then, too, repeated visits to cultural monuments doubtless palled in time, natural curiosity withered by sheer surfeit.• These notes, however, should be used sparingly as they soon pall on the ear.

Related topics: Death

pall2 noun [countableC]

1 AMOUNT[usually singular] a thick dark cloud of smoke, dust etc 浓密的烟[灰尘等]

pall of smoke/dust/ash etc

A pall of thick grey smoke hung over the buildings.

那些建筑物的上空笼罩着厚厚一层灰色的烟幕。

2 a pall of something literary an unpleasant quality that seems to be in a place or situation 某事物的阴影[不好气氛]

The area is enveloped in a pall of neglect.

那个地区笼罩在一片荒凉的气氛中。

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a pall of something• When he got to the car the engine was running and a pall of acrid fumes gathered in the still air.• The Internal Investigations Division, a self-policing unit set up by Wilson, had become known as a pall of whitewash.• One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison.• The smoldering ruins wrapped the city in a pall of smoke.• The south in particular was enveloped in a pall of neglect.• His excitement meant nothing to her; she felt she was covering him with a pall of ash.

3. MXa cloth used to cover a coffin (=a box containing a dead body) 棺罩；柩衣

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pall• One would find oneself driving along in a pall of black poison.• She felt an aura of sadness around her like a pall.• The dark pall of the dream settled over him again.• Night fell upon, and spread its funereal pall over, a field of blood where death held unrestrained carnival!• A global pall of dust raised by the eruption reddened sunsets everywhere on Earth for several months.• Outside a massive pall of cloud hung low over the harbour.• A smoke pall spread over the region like the prototype of a nuclear winter.• But a worrying pall of familiarity hangs over the proceedings.

pall of smoke/dust/ash etc• The smoldering ruins wrapped the city in a pall of smoke.• His excitement meant nothing to her; she felt she was covering him with a pall of ash.• A black pall of smoke hung over Valetta.• A global pall of dust raised by the eruption reddened sunsets everywhere on Earth for several months.• From his home in Acton, Richard Baxter saw the flames and the huge pall of smoke which turned the sun red.• A low pall of smoke hung over the nearby buildings; there had been a dawn funeral, a burning.• Behind her, Atrimonides lurched clear of a rising pall of smoke.

Origin pall1

(1300-1400) appal

pall2

(900-1000) Latin pallium “covering”

pall1 verbpall2 noun

Chinese

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