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

• Apart from the naivety of Lula's foreign policy in South America, there are two graver reasons why Brazil's president has lost his shine.
  撇开卢拉幼稚的拉美外交政策不谈，有两个更严重的原因使得巴西总统的风采不再。
• 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。
• As the history of the20th century shows, evidence of plunder that meets legal standards is hard to collect in the chaos of war, and against a background of even graver horrors.
  20世纪的历史表明，战争期间局面混乱、而且可能发生更骇人听闻之事，故而难以搜集符合法律标准的劫掠证据。
• I learn to use with more and more facility the pencil, brush, and graver.
  我学会越来越灵巧地运用铅笔、画笔和雕刻刀。
• Stone is a kind of knife is doing it to stone painting category for the paper, the inevitable will be graver, and stone of the constraints and impact.
  画像石是一种以刀代笔、以石为纸的绘画门类，其不可避免的会受到刻刀和石料的制约和影响。
• Cindy barnett, a London magistrate, reckons the defendants she sees are more violent and have graver drug problems these days.
  伦敦地方法官辛迪？巴内特认为，如今她所见过的那些被告更为暴戾，涉毒问题也更为严重。
• Vacuum brazed diamond graver is used to grave all kinds of stones.
  钎焊雕刻刀用于雕刻各种石头。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。