| 词源 |
pale. The word pale for “stake” or “picket” comes from the Latin word palus, “stake,” while the word pale for “colorless” or “whitish,” lacking intensity of color, derives from the Latin word palledus meaning the same. One of the great uses of the latter pale came during the battle between the U.S.S. Constitu- tion and the French frigate Insurgente in 1799. An officer on the victorious Constitution ran through a seaman who was fleeing his post. “We would put any man to death for looking pale on this ship,” he said later. |