graver

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'
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. from the cradle to the grave → see: cradle

1. 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。
2. Then he looked a good deal graver, and said, "have you been walking much on your chin lately?"
   接着他看起来严肃至极地说：“难道你用下巴走路吗？”
3. Her resolve, however, had been taken, and it seemed vacillating even to childishness to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons.
   不过她早已下了决心，而且现在不去了，也似乎显得有些像小孩子一样犹豫不决了，除非有重要的理由才能回去。
4. Rivals have also faced graver problems over the past couple of years, such as a tragic sinking and engine fires.
   过去几年，其他游轮公司面临过较为严重的问题，如悲剧性的沉船事故和引擎起火事件。
5. I learn to use with more and more facility the pencil, brush, and graver.
   我学会越来越灵巧地运用铅笔、画笔和雕刻刀。
6. For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life.
   这是因为，败坏作为精神生活的宗教信仰，比起伪造维持世俗生活的货币来，问题要严重得多。
7. Cindy barnett, a London magistrate, reckons the defendants she sees are more violent and have graver drug problems these days.
   伦敦地方法官辛迪？巴内特认为，如今她所见过的那些被告更为暴戾，涉毒问题也更为严重。
8. Someone being racially abused face-to-face in a shop is in a much graver situation than the one I found myself in.
   某人在商店内当面受到种族主义辱骂，要比我自己在本文开头所说的情况更为严重。
9. The situation in the US is far graver.
   美国的形势更加严重。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. This can be a difficult task for the inexperienced engraver as good graver control is important.
    这可以是一个良好的控制没有经验的雕刻更严重困难的任务是重要的。
13. Outside america, the consequences could be even graver.
    美国国外，后果更为严重。
14. If he is convicted of having erred intentionally in the matter, then he is to be subject to graver punishment.
    如果他被定罪的有错误故意在这个问题上，那麽，他是受到严重的处罚。
15. 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。
16. Across the sun hurried a darkening filter of cloud, the advance guard of a larger and even graver army.
    一团乌云掠过太阳，如同一支愈加庞大、战意愈浓军队的前锋。
17. As the history of the20th century shows, evidence of plunder that meets legal standards is hard to collect in the chaos of war, and against a background of even graver horrors.
    20世纪的历史表明，战争期间局面混乱、而且可能发生更骇人听闻之事，故而难以搜集符合法律标准的劫掠证据。
18. 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。
19. Now graver matters are taking over.
    而现在，这已让位于更为严重的问题。
20. 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。
21. Solomon looked a little graver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy's bright face.
    所罗门吃完晚饭的时候，神情比刚才沉着一些；他不时向孩子快活的脸看一眼。
22. Given the societal trend towards laxity and the emphasis on eugenics, the abortion issue is becoming graver day by day.
    随著社会风气的开放与优生学的强调，堕胎问题日益严重。
23. At least the initial charges against the four men-of stealing state secrets, a graver crime-were downgraded to merely stealing commercially confidential information.
    但至少最初对这四名员工的控诉偷窃国家机密罪，这是更为严重的罪项被降低为偷盗商业机密罪。
24. Vacuum brazed diamond graver is used to grave all kinds of stones.
    钎焊雕刻刀用于雕刻各种石头。
25. But I think your face looks graver than mine.
    可我觉得你的脸色比我还差。
26. The essential reason for which the system established was that the social issues such as poverty and unemployment became graver and the failure of Poor Law.
    贫困和失业等社会问题的严重化和济贫法制度的失效是这一制度建立的根本原因；
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. It is widely acknowledged that the Internet is a double-edged sword, bringing new opportunities and hopes for the mankind, but simultaneously new troubles and problems. Inevitably, this constitutes graver challenges for the protection of privacy in the network environment.
    众所周知，网络技术是一把双刃剑，它的发展给人类带来了新的机遇和希望，也带来了新的问题和困扰，给网络环境下个人隐私权带来了更为严重的冲击和挑战。
30. 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。

noun

1. a tool used by an engraver

   Synonym:    graving toolpointelpointrel