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
grave的最高级

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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。