pall
pall 英 [pɔ:l] 美 [pɔl]
n. 幕；棺罩；遮盖物 vt. 覆盖；使乏味 vi. 走味
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- A pall was originally a coffin’s cloak. Now pall usually means that an event or situation is — literally or figuratively — covered in gloom, like disappointing news that casts a pall on your day.
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- n. 幕；棺罩；遮盖物
- vt. 覆盖；使乏味
- vi. 走味
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1. I don't want to cast a pall on all of you who are interested in data binding -- rather, the contrary.
我并不想打消你们对数据绑定的兴趣，恰恰相反，我认为它是一种了不起的应用程序。
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2. Unfortunately, like the dollar bill and the American flag, it has assumed a pall of such impenetrable familiarity that we no longer see it at all.
可惜的是，就像美元纸币和美国国旗一样，这幅作品有同样的障人眼目的熟悉性，着层熟悉的烟幕让我们对她的伟大视而不见。
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3. The comments may cast a pall over what many have recently suggested was a promising career in the US film industry.
这些言论可能会使最近在许多人口中在美国电影产业有着大好仕途的她蒙上一层阴影。
- pall (n.) Old English pæll "rich cloth or cloak, purple robe, altar cloth," from Latin pallium "cloak, coverlet, covering," in Tertullian, the garment worn by Christians instead of the Roman toga; related to pallo "robe, cloak," palla "long upper garment of Roman women," perhaps from the root of pellis "skin." Notion of "cloth spread over a coffin" (mid-15c.) led to figurative sense of "dark, gloomy mood" (1742).
- pall (v.) "become tiresome," 1700, from Middle English pallen "to become faint, fail in strength" (late 14c.), shortened form of appallen "to dismay, fill with horror or disgust" (see appall). Related: Palled; palling.
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