考研英语大纲常考词组短语 pale by comparison
释义：
pale by comparison 相形见绌
例句：
Yet all these technical issues pale by comparison with the institutional barriers.
然而，所有这些技术问题在制度的壁垒下显得苍白无力。
The trial of Mickey and Mallory Knox was SUDH an event, that it made the crime spree that preceded it pale by comparison.
对米基和麦勒丽·科诺斯的审讯已成了大事务，以前的不论什么疯狂罪案与之比拟都黯然掉色。
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。
I'm humbled by my experience, and regardless of how hard I try, my images pale in comparison to the canyon's majesty.
我的经验使我感到卑微，无论我多么努力尝试，与大峡谷的威严相比，我的想象是苍白的。
He acknowledges his accomplishments pale by comparison, and suggests his award may be more about the notion of hope.
He acknowledges his accomplishments pale by comparison, and suggests that his award might be more about hope than accomplishments.
Whatever happens, it remains true that venture firms vet prospective investments with a rigor that makes Ivy League admissions pale by comparison.
Neither Dennis Kloske nor Sam Gejdenson objected to this action, even though its strategic consequences are likely to make those precipitated by ill-advised sales to Saddam Hussein pale by comparison.
No, at the moment he has the national security in his crosshairs - and the negative implications could make those associated with his other, domestic policy campaigns pale by comparison.
Can there be any doubt that, under such circumstances, the costs he will be able to inflict in a future crisis will make those we must face today pale by comparison?
These numbers pale by comparison to U.S. bank contributions.
We are convinced, however, that those costs are both the inevitable price of freedom and will be shown to pale by comparison with those that would have been associated with continued U.S. inaction.
The president warns that terrorists are planning new attacks that could make the Sept. 11 attacks "pale by comparison" and says that failure to pass the Protect America Act could have dire consequences.
The implications for U.S. security and commercial interests of a world government entity dictating to us our use of and access to space could make the concerns raised by the ISA pale by comparison.
To do otherwise would be to turn, yet again, a blind eye to security-related — as well as financial — Soviet improprieties that could make recent revelations about international banking scandals pale by comparison.
To do otherwise would be to turn, yet again, a blind eye to security-related -- as well as financial -- Soviet improprieties that could make recent revelations about international banking scandals pale by comparison.
Investment banking and asset management pale by comparison.
Other notices and audit activity pale by comparison.
No matter how much you may accomplish in the country, examples abound of companies like BYD and Geely that seemingly come out of nowhere to become very big, very fast, and which make any achievement pale by comparison.
Should the Bush Administration nonetheless choose to accede to Soviet demands — as it has recently in a number of areas — its folly will make that of the framers of the disastrous Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 pale by comparison.