| 单词 | grave |
| 释义 | noun | adjective | adjective gravegrave1 /greɪv/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1the place in the ground where a dead body is buried2somebody would turn/roll over in his/her grave used to say that someone who is dead would strongly disapprove of something happening now: Mozart would roll over in his grave if he heard this music.3the grave especially literary death: He took that secret to the grave. [Origin: Old English græf] → see also from (the) cradle to (the) grave at cradle1 (3), dig your own grave at dig1 (7), have one foot in the grave at foot1 (15), a watery grave at watery (4) noun | adjective | adjective gravegrave2 adjective formal 1very serious and worrying: The situation is grave. They are making a grave mistake. a grave danger to national securitygrave doubts/concerns etc. He had grave doubts about the marriage.2looking or sounding very serious, especially because something important or worrying has happened SYN somber: Dr. Fromm looked grave. “I have some bad news,” he said.—gravely adverb → see also gravity noun | adjective | adjective gravegrave3 /greɪv, grɑv/ ●●○ adjective eng. lang. arts a grave accent is a mark put above a letter in some languages, such as French, to show the pronunciation, for example è |
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