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n. (名詞 noun)



         1.    調色板;調色板上的顏料

         2.   (某畫或某畫家常用的)獨特色彩





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



palate, palette, pallet (nn.) 

   

These are homophones, all pronounced PAL-it. 



The palate is the roof of the mouth and its soft, fleshy pendant; figuratively it is also the sense of taste. 



A palette is the painter’s board on which paints are mixed, and it is also figuratively the collection of colors with which a given painter works. 









A pallet is any of a number of specialized tools or devices, the most common of which is the rough wooden platform used for stacking boxes or for holding machinery and other large items so that they can be moved by materials-handling equipment. 





Shooting in the style of a sober documentary with a [desaturated] palette, Truffaut modulates the growth of his heroine's obsession so carefully and with such sympathy, that, up to a point, her experience is easily recognizable, and even in the depths of madness, completely engrossing.





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