gravest

英 [ˈgreɪvɪst] 美 [ˈgrævəst]

adj.  严重的; 重大的; 严峻的; 深切的; 严肃的; 庄严的; 表情沉重的
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    Pronounced /greɪv/, except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑːv/. 义项5读作 /grɑːv/,除此外读作/greɪv/。

  1. N-COUNT 墓穴；坟墓；埋葬处
    A grave is 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。
  2. N-COUNT 死亡;终结
    You can refer to some-one's death as their grave or to death as the 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。
  3. ADJ-GRADED 严重的；重大的；严峻的
    A grave event 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。
  4. ADJ-GRADED 严肃的；表情沉重的
    A grave person 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。
  5. . 重音符;抑音符;沉音符
    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'
    1. PHRASE 自掘坟墓；自取灭亡
      If you say that someone is digging their own 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。
    2. PHRASE 九泉之下不得安宁
      If you say that someone who is dead would turn 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.
      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。
    3. from the cradle to the grave → see: cradle
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    双语例句

    1. We are in the gravest peril.
      我们身处非常严重的危机之中。
    2. This is the gravest food crisis in the world and the numbers are getting worse.
      这是全世界最严重的食物危机，受影响人数还在不断增加。
    3. Many of the gravest security notices from the Computer Emergency Response Team ( see Resources) and vendors are commentaries on simple memory errors.
      来自计算机应急响应小组（请参见参考资料）和供应商的许多最严重的安全公告都是由简单的内存错误造成的。
    4. And where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.
      但如果有需要，只要能力所及，我们还会继续采取直接行动，以对付那些对美国构成最严重威胁的恐怖分子。
    5. While our nation is safer than it was seven years ago, the gravest threat to our people remains another terrorist attack.
      尽管我们的国家比七年前安全，我们的民众所面临的最严重威胁仍然是再度发生的恐怖袭击。
    6. But the gravest threat to the American way of life does not come from liberalism, regulation or the power of government; it comes from economic collapse.
      但是，美国生活方式面对的最严峻威胁，并非来自自由主义、监管或者政府权力，而是来自经济崩溃。
    7. I had the gravest suspicions about the whole enterprise.
      我对整个企业极其怀疑。
    8. I view his conduct in the gravest light.
      我以极严重的态度看待他的行为。
    9. We have been in a period of extraordinary volatility in food prices, which poses a real danger of irreparable harm to the most vulnerable nations, Mr Zoellick said, adding that food prices were the single gravest threat facing developing countries.
      我们处在一个粮食价格波动极大的时期，这对最脆弱的国家构成了现实的威胁，可能造成无法弥补的损害，佐利克说。他还补充说粮食价格是发展中国家面临的最严峻的单一威胁。
    10. You must see it's of the gravest urgency.
      你一定知道这是最紧迫的。
    11. Look upward and live upward with curiosity and an expectation of miracles, and even in the gravest of situations miracles can, and will, occur for you.
      要向上看，并且要以好奇心和对奇迹的期盼朝向上生活，并且，就算处在最严重的境遇之中，那奇迹也能，并且也将会为你而发生。
    12. Avarice is, I should say, the gravest defect of the Chinese.
      贪心，我以为是中国人最大的缺点。
    13. Incidents of the gravest nature will now be staged one after another.
      最重大的事变，将在今后逐步演出。
    14. Careless drivers are a menace to pedestrians. The gravest and most immediate threat is to the banking system.
      粗心的驾驶对行人来说是个胁迫。最严峻且最迫切的威胁在银行体系。
    15. If this is not understood at all or is insufficiently understood, the gravest of mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.
      如果对于这种形势认识不足，或者根本不认识，那就要犯绝大的错误，就会忽视必要的思想斗争。
    16. Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
      今天，反恐怖主义战争最严重的危险，美国和全世界面临的最严重的危险，来自谋求获得和拥有核武器、化学武器和生物武器的歹徒政权。
    17. It is of the gravest importance, I assure you.
      此事极为重要，我向你保证。
    18. The heavy shadow of America's unilateralism is also visible on the unresolved question of Palestine, which is one of the gravest tragedies of the20th and21st centuries.
      美国单边主义的沉重阴影在仍未解决的20世纪和21世纪最大悲剧之一的巴勒斯坦问题上也能看到。
    19. At his most hesitant he was also at his gravest.
      他最吞吞吐吐的时候，也就是最严肃认真的时候。
    20. That was the gravest crisis we faced outside the national security area.
      这场危机是我们在国家安全领域外，面对的最严重的危机。
    21. Now I was being given the responsibility to help steer my adopted country through one of the gravest constitutional crises of its history.
      如今我协助领导这个养育我的国家度过它历史上一场最严重的宪法危机。
    22. High Overlord Saurfang says: Warchief, it is clear that Northrend represents the gravest threat to our people, and that we must act against it.
      萨鲁法尔大王：酋长，现在很清楚诺森德给我们的人民带来了严重的威胁，我们必须反抗。
    23. Prospects for achieving the MDGs are gravest in health.
      实现千年发展目标的前景在卫生方面最为严峻。
    24. But the gravest doubt is over how big a core vote Labour can really rely on.
      但最大的疑问是，工党真正能依靠的核心选举，其范围有多大。
    25. It was the steepest and gravest of gambles with the future of his Navy and his country.
      这是拿他的海军和他的祖国的前途在这最凶险、最重大的赌局中孤注一掷。
    26. Chipmakers have given their gravest assessment yet of the state of the industry, predicting growth of less than 2 per cent this year, down from previous forecasts of 10 per cent or higher.
      全球芯片制造商对该行业的状况做出了迄今最为黯淡的估计，预测该行业今年的增长率不到2%，低于先前10%甚至更高的增长预测。
    27. Months ago, when I wrote of the undead blight upon our land, I thought them the gravest of threats.
      几个月前，当我记述下在这土地上肆虐的亡灵生物，并认定它们是最为严重的威胁。
    28. To be blind to this will lead to the gravest error.
      对这视而不见的话会导致严重的错误。
    29. President Bush warned in his State of the Union address that "the gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons."
      布什总统在他的国情咨文讲话中警告说，“美国和全世界面临的最严重的危险是谋求获得和拥有核武器的歹徒政权。”
    30. You know what I feel for you in this gravest hour of my life. Words fail me to express myself.
      您知道我在一生的这个最严重的时刻，我对您的感情非语言所能表达。
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