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新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

grave

[ADJ, NOUN]

    ADJ. 形容词

  • graver , gravest

    1. 严重的

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

    双语例句

    例：

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

    他说他们国家的形势很严峻。

    2. 严肃的

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

    双语例句

    例：

    Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.

    她不安地审视着他那张异常严肃的脸。

    3. 抑音符号

    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'.

    NOUN. 名词

  • graves

    1. [C 可数名词] 坟墓

    A grave is a place where a dead person is buried.

    双语例句

    例：

    They used to visit her grave twice a year.

    他们以前每年给她上两次坟。

    PHRASE. 习语

  • turn in their grave

    1. （让死者）在九泉之下不得安宁

    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.

    双语例句

    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。

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