grave意思

1. death of a person;

   "he went to his grave without forgiving me"
   "from cradle to grave"
   

2. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);

   "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
   

3. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

1. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;

   "a grave God-fearing man"
   "a quiet sedate nature"
   "as sober as a judge"
   "a solemn promise"
   "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
   

2. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;

   "a dangerous operation"
   "a grave situation"
   "a grave illness"
   "grievous bodily harm"
   "a serious wound"
   "a serious turn of events"
   "a severe case of pneumonia"
   "a life-threatening disease"
   

3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;

   "grave responsibilities"
   "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"
   "a grievous fault"
   "heavy matters of state"
   "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
   

1. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;

   "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
   

2. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;

   "engrave a pen"
   "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"
   "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
   

1.墓穴；坟墓；埋葬处
Agrave is a place where a dead person is buried.

e.g. They used to visit hergrave twice a year.
他们以前每年去她的墓前凭吊两次。

2.死亡;终结
You can refer to some-one's death as theirgrave or to death asthe grave .

e.g. ...drinking yourself to an earlygrave...
纵酒而自折其寿
e.g. Most men would rather go to thegrave than own up to feelings of dependency.
大多数男人宁死都不愿承认有依赖感。

3.严重的；重大的；严峻的
Agrave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.

e.g. He said that the situation in his country is verygrave...
他说他的国家情况十分危急。
e.g. I havegrave 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。

4.严肃的；表情沉重的
Agrave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour.

grave

e.g. William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he lookedgrave...
威廉在屋顶上呆了一段时间，他下来的时候面色凝重。
e.g. Anxiously, she examined his unusuallygrave face.
她忐忑不安地审视着他异常严肃的脸色。

5.. 重音符;抑音符;沉音符
In some languages such as French, agrave 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'

6.自掘坟墓；自取灭亡
If you say that someoneis digging theirown grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.

grave的反义词

e.g. The magazine isn't trying to ruin his career, the man's digging his owngrave 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。

7.九泉之下不得安宁
If you say that someone who is dead wouldturn in theirgrave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.

e.g. Darwin must be turning in hisgrave 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。

8. from the cradle to thegrave -> see cradle

dig one's own grave

自取灭亡do sth which causes one's own downfall

from the cradle to the grave

从生到死from birth to death

have one foot in the grave

离死不远,行将就木be so old or ill that one is not likely to live much longer

turn in one's grave

死后不得安生of a person who is already dead, likely to be offended or angry

• A skull, torn out of the graves nearby.

  出自：H. Asquith

• The new grave lying by the three short mounds of her little brothers.

  出自：M. Mitchell

• The mountains against the heaven's grave weight Rise up.

  出自：Wordsworth

• Maye the springes off waters be grauen awaye.

  出自：Bible (Coverdale): Jeremiah

grave, tomb

grave和tomb均指埋葬尸体的“坟墓”。

1.grave指一般的“土墓”; tomb可译为“陵墓”,是坟墓的雅称,指建在地下的墓室,也可是一种带墓碑的建筑,既可安放死者,又可作纪念物。

2.tomb表示“坟墓”时,比grave更庄重,在说“扫墓”时,多用tomb。

3.grave作“死”及“死亡”解时,一般不用tomb代替。