gravely

英 [ˈgreɪvli]

美 [ˈgreɪvli]

adv.  严肃（重）地；沉重地；重大地

BNC.12126 / COCA.13074

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

adv

• to a severe or serious degree
  1. fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated
  2. badly injured
  3. a severely impaired heart
  4. is gravely ill
  5. was seriously ill
  Synonym:badlyseverelyseriously
• in a grave and sober manner
  1. he walked soberly toward the altar
  Synonym:soberlystaidly

双语例句

• Her illness has concerned us gravely over the months.
  她的病情使我们足足担心了好几个月。
• Her husband had been gravely ill for some time.
  她的丈夫重病缠身有一段时间了。
• It has damaged the consumer and operators lawful rights and interests gravely, and disturbed the regular order of the market economy, and it wasted the social resources seriously.
  它严重损害了广大消费者和经营者的合法权益，扰乱了正常的市场经济秩序，导政了对社会资源的严重浪费。
• But a show of strength in Ukraine would ultimately gravely weaken the Russian state.
  但在乌克兰展示实力最终将严重削弱俄罗斯。
• We shook hands with him gravely and went back outdoors.
  我们郑重其事地跟他握了握手，然后退了出来。
• "I'm proud to know you," he said gravely and then hunched down again.
  我认识了你，感到非常荣幸。他庄重地说，然后又蹲下去了。
• He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awakening mountains.
  他朝四下里望望，肃穆地对这座塔和周围的田野以及逐渐苏醒了的群山祝福了三遍。
• No, I should never love anybody better than papa,'she returned gravely.
  “不，我永远不会爱任何人胜过爱爸爸，”她严肃地回嘴。
• Investment bank Liberum Capital reckons BHP gravely misread from the outset the complexity of the anti-trust issue.
  投资银行LiberumCapital认为，必和必拓从一开始就严重误判了反垄断问题的复杂性。
• A change had come over him, and he spoke gravely, and with decision.
  他身上起了变化，他说话很严肃，而且很果断。