grievous
adj. 令人傷心或痛苦的; (指壞事)劇烈的,嚴重的; 悲哀
If you describe something such as a loss as grievous, you mean that it is extremely serious or worrying in its effects.
Their loss would be a grievous blow to our engineering industries...
失去它們將會是對我們工程行業的一個沉重打擊。
Mr Morris said the victims had suffered from a very grievous mistake.
莫里斯先生說遇難者因為一個極其嚴重的失誤而遭遇不幸。
A grievous injury to your body is one that causes you great pain and suffering.
He survived in spite of suffering grievous injuries.
儘管身受重傷,他還是活下來了。
1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
2. causing or marked by grief or anguish;
3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
4. shockingly brutal or cruel;
Wasting food when people are starving is a grievous wrong.
在別人捱餓時浪費食物是一種嚴重的罪惡.
He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
他被控蓄意嚴重傷害他人身體.
Manamela was found guilty of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
曼那梅拉意圖造成他人重傷害的攻擊罪名判決成立.
But the court found them guilty grievous bodily harm to kidnapping.
但是法庭發現他們犯有人身傷害和綁架罪.
This a grievous lesson left us by the history.
這是歷史留給我們的沉痛教訓.