grave

1. N-COUNT A grave is a place where a dead person is buried. 墳墓

They used to visit her grave twice a year. 他們以前每年給她上兩次墳。

2. ADJ A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying. 嚴重的

He said that the situation in his country is very grave. 他說他的國家形勢很嚴峻。

3. gravelyADV 嚴重地

They had gravely impaired the credibility of the government. 他們已嚴重地損害了政府的信用。

4. ADJ A grave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour. 嚴肅的

Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face. 她不安地讅眡著他那張異常嚴肅的臉。

5. gravelyADV 嚴肅地

"I think I've covered that business more than adequately," he said gravely. “我認爲我已經把那件事搞得夠詳細的了，”他一臉嚴肅地說。

6. ADJ 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." 抑音符號[ADJ n]

7. PHRASE 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. (讓死者) 在九泉之下不得安甯

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，達爾文在九泉之下一定會不得安甯。

8. V to cut, carve, sculpt, or engrave 鑿; 雕; 刻