graver

英 [ˈgreɪvə]

美 [ˈgreɪvər]

adj.  严重的; 重大的; 严峻的; 深切的; 严肃的; 庄严的; 表情沉重的
grave的比较级

复数：gravers　

医学

柯林斯词典

Pronounced /greɪv/, except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑːv/. 义项5读作 /grɑːv/,除此外读作/greɪv/。


• N-COUNT 墓穴；坟墓；埋葬处
  Agraveis a place where a dead person is buried.
  1. They used to visit her grave twice a year.
     他们以前每年去她的墓前凭吊两次。
• N-COUNT 死亡;终结
  You can refer to some-one's death as theirgraveor to death asthe grave.
  1. ...drinking yourself to an early grave...
     纵酒而自折其寿
  2. Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
     大多数男人宁死都不愿承认有依赖感。
• ADJ-GRADED 严重的；重大的；严峻的
  Agraveevent or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.
  1. He said that the situation in his country is very grave...
     他说他的国家情况十分危急。
  2. I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
     我对这些文件能否说明所有的问题深表怀疑。
• ADJ-GRADED 严肃的；表情沉重的
  Agraveperson is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour.
  1. William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked grave...
     威廉在屋顶上呆了一段时间，他下来的时候面色凝重。
  2. Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.
     她忐忑不安地审视着他异常严肃的脸色。
• . 重音符;抑音符;沉音符
  In some languages such as French, agraveaccent 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'
• PHRASE 自掘坟墓；自取灭亡
  If you say that someoneis diggingtheirown grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
  1. The magazine isn't trying to ruin his career, the man's digging his own grave by refusing an interview.
     这份杂志并非想断送他的事业，而他拒绝接受采访就是在自毁前程。
• PHRASE 九泉之下不得安宁
  If you say that someone who is dead wouldturn intheirgrave atsomething that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
  1. 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不得安宁。
• from the cradle to the grave→ see:cradle

英英释义

noun

• a tool used by an engraver
  Synonym:graving toolpointelpointrel

双语例句

• The tribulations of our adult lives feel much graver now.
  而现在我们所经历的成年期的苦难要痛苦得多。
• Her resolve, however, had been taken, and it seemed vacillating even to childishness to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons.
  不过她早已下了决心，而且现在不去了，也似乎显得有些像小孩子一样犹豫不决了，除非有重要的理由才能回去。
• As jade is of hard texture, carving is not done with a steel graver, but with emery by way of grinding.
  由于玉质地很硬，不能用钢质雕刻刀雕刻，用磨光的金刚砂来雕刻。
• Someone being racially abused face-to-face in a shop is in a much graver situation than the one I found myself in.
  某人在商店内当面受到种族主义辱骂，要比我自己在本文开头所说的情况更为严重。
• Solomon looked a little graver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy's bright face.
  所罗门吃完晚饭的时候，神情比刚才沉着一些；他不时向孩子快活的脸看一眼。
• For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life.
  这是因为，败坏作为精神生活的宗教信仰，比起伪造维持世俗生活的货币来，问题要严重得多。
• If he is convicted of having erred intentionally in the matter, then he is to be subject to graver punishment.
  如果他被定罪的有错误故意在这个问题上，那麽，他是受到严重的处罚。
• The essential reason for which the system established was that the social issues such as poverty and unemployment became graver and the failure of Poor Law.
  贫困和失业等社会问题的严重化和济贫法制度的失效是这一制度建立的根本原因；
• At least the initial charges against the four men-of stealing state secrets, a graver crime-were downgraded to merely stealing commercially confidential information.
  但至少最初对这四名员工的控诉偷窃国家机密罪，这是更为严重的罪项被降低为偷盗商业机密罪。
• Given the societal trend towards laxity and the emphasis on eugenics, the abortion issue is becoming graver day by day.
  随著社会风气的开放与优生学的强调，堕胎问题日益严重。