grave CET4 TEM4 ( graver, gravest, graves )

义项 grave读作ɡrɑːv，此外读作ɡreɪv。

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A grave is a place where a dead person is buried. 坟墓

  例：

  They used to visit her grave twice a year.

  他们以前每年给她上两次坟。

• 2. 

  ADJ A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying. 严重的

  例：

  He said that the situation in his country is very grave.

  他说他的国家形势很严峻。

• 3. 

  gravely ADV 严重地

  例：

  They had gravely impaired the credibility of the government.

  他们已严重地损害了政府的信用。

• 4. 

  ADJ A grave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour. 严肃的

  例：

  Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.

  她不安地审视着他那张异常严肃的脸。

• 5. 

  gravely ADV 严肃地

  例：

  "I think I've covered that business more than adequately," he said gravely.

  “我认为我已经把那件事搞得够详细的了，”他一脸严肃地说。

• 6. 

  ADJ In some languages, such as French, a grave accent is a symbol that is placed over a vowel in a word to show how the vowel is pronounced. For example, the word "mère" has a grave accent over the first "e." 抑音符号 [ADJ n]

• 7. 

  PHRASE If you say that someone who is dead would turn or turn over in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive. (让死者) 在九泉之下不得安宁

  例：

  Darwin must be turning in his grave at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name.

  一想到冒他之名所做下的那些事，达尔文在九泉之下一定会不得安宁。

• 8. 

  V to cut, carve, sculpt, or engrave 凿; 雕; 刻