名詞 paling:

1. a fence made of upright pickets
   同義詞：picket fence, paling

1. Mr.Gorbachev and his reformist Kremlin allies are prepared to tolerate, even encourage, moderate nationalists who challenge central control and demand autonomy. But Moscow rightly feels that, in a polyglot country with102 different nationalities, ethnic violence is beyond the pale.
   戈爾巴喬夫和他克里姆林宮改革派盟友們，準備容忍，甚至鼓勵溫和的民族主義分子向中央控制挑戰(zhàn)并要求獨立。可是莫斯科自有理由覺得：在一個操多種語言，由102個民族組成的國家里，族裔之間的暴力則屬過分。
2. A fence made of pales or pickets.
   柵欄用樁或尖樁圍成的籬笆