pall

noun
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  1. [usually singular] pall of something a thick dark cloud of something浓密的云烟;尘烟
    • a pall of smoke/dust一团烟雾/沙尘
    • (figurative) News of her death cast a pall over the event.她死亡的消息给这件事蒙上了阴影。🔊🔊
    Topics Weatherc2
  2. a cloth spread over a coffin柩衣;棺材罩布 (= a box used for burying a dead person in)
  3. Word Originnoun Old English pæll ‘rich (purple) cloth’, ‘cloth cover for a chalice’, from Latin pallium ‘covering, cloak’.

pall

verb
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[intransitive] not used in the progressive tenses不用于进行时
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pall
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he / she / it palls
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past simple palled
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past participle palled
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past simple palling
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past participle palling
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  1. pall (on somebody) to become less interesting to somebody over a period of time because they have done or seen it too much(因见或做得过多而)失去魅力,使人厌倦
    • Even the impressive scenery began to pall on me after a few hundred miles.行经了数百英里以后,即使秀丽风光也使我感到索然无味了。🔊🔊
    Word Originverb late Middle English: shortening of appal.