grave
adj. 重大的,重要的; 嚴重的; [音樂]沉重的; (顏色等)樸素的
n. 墳墓,墓穴; 埋葬…的地方; 下場; 死亡
A grave is a place where a dead person is buried.
They used to visit her grave twice a year.
他們以前每年去她的墓前憑弔兩次。
You can refer to some-one's death as their grave or to death as the grave .
...drinking yourself to an early grave...
縱酒而自折其壽
Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
大多數男人寧死都不願承認有依賴感。
A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.
He said that the situation in his country is very grave...
他說他的國家情況十分危急。
I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
我對這些檔案能否說明所有的問題深表懷疑。
A grave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour.
William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked grave...
威廉在屋頂上呆了一段時間,他下來的時候面色凝重。
Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.
她忐忑不安地審視著他異常嚴肅的臉色。
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'
If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
The magazine isn't trying to ruin his career, the man's digging his own grave by refusing an interview.
這份雜誌並非想斷送他的事業,而他拒絕接受採訪就是在自毀前程。
If you say that someone who is dead would turn 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.
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,達爾文在九泉之下一定不得安寧。
1. death of a person;
2. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);
3. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
1. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;
2. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;
1. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;
2. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
earnest, serious, grave, severe, solemn, sober
這些形容詞均有"嚴肅的"之意。
grave, tomb, vault
這些名詞都有"墳墓,墓穴"之意。
dig one's own grave
自掘墳墓,自己害自己
(as) silent (或 quiet) as the grave
像墳墓那樣寂靜,寂靜無聲
take the (或 one's 等) secret to the grave
將秘密帶入墳墓,至死保守秘密
turn (北美亦作turn over) in one's grave
在墳墓中輾轉反側(表示認為某事會令某位死者發怒或痛苦)
You are just digging your own grave if you go on smoking so heavily.
你再抽這麼多煙,那你就是自掘墳墓.
I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project.
我覺得不得不對這項計劃深表懷疑.
The situation was grave.
情況是嚴重的.
Let us rest his body in his family grave.
我們把他的遺體安放在他的祖墳中吧.
It was as quite as a grave in there, you could just hear the wind moving the trees.
那裡一片死寂, 你能聽到風吹動樹葉的聲音.