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

• Conclusion Patients with comorbid depression and anxiety have graver depressive and anxious symptoms and greater suicide risk than ones with single depression have.
  结论抑郁焦虑障碍共病患者较单纯抑郁症患者的抑郁和焦虑症状更严重、自杀风险大。
• They cost millions of dollars, and took up limited prosecutorial time that could have been spent on far graver crimes.
  他们花费了数以千百万计的钱，占用了本来用在更严重的犯罪案上的有限的起诉时间。
• 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。
• But I think your face looks graver than mine.
  可我觉得你的脸色比我还差。
• The mechanically ruled grating in the film by the diamond graver is one unreplaceable manufacture method of diffraction grating.
  利用金刚石刻划刀在膜层上机械刻划衍射光栅，是一种不可替代的光栅制作方法。
• 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。
• The phenomenon is common, but the underpricing is graver in the developing countries than in the developed countries.
  从国际上看IPO抑价现象普遍存在，但发展中国家比发达国家严重得多。
• The red portion of the gift is from the hand-carved stone by graver and hand-sealed on the rice paper by inkpad.
  红色的部分是用刻刀在石头上雕刻而成，并用印泥盖在宣纸上。
• 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。
• 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。