Grave

(noun.) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); 'he put flowers on his mother's grave'.

(noun.) death of a person; 'he went to his grave without forgiving me'; 'from cradle to grave'.

(adj.) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; 'grave responsibilities'; 'faced a grave decision in a time of crisis'; 'a grievous fault'; 'heavy matters of state'; 'the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference' .

(adj.) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; 'a grave God-fearing man'; 'a quiet sedate nature'; 'as sober as a judge'; 'a solemn promise'; 'the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence' .

手打:帕特丽夏

• Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Sewed into my gown,' with her hand upon her breast, 'is just enough to lay me in the grave. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The influence of the fresh air, and the attraction of some flowers gathered from a grave, soon quieted the child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That alone was enough to make Machiavelli, the father of modern foreign policy, turn in his grave. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then in another moment he had clambered up the wall and was going among the graves. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If I could only wake at her side, when the angel's trumpet sounds, and the graves give up their dead at the resurrection! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You make me feel very uncomfortable, Mary, said Rosamond, with her gravest mildness; I would not tell mamma for the world. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is not the least to the purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But there were various subjects that Dorothea was trying to get clear upon, and she resolved to throw herself energetically into the gravest of all. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Naturally, the gravest danger is in winter. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I could tell by my companion's graver face that he also had seen. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This in a lower voice, but only as if it were a graver matter; not at all to the exclusion of the person of the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So I said, in a graver manner than any of us had yet assumed: 'She is as virtuous as she is pretty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Then he laid the paper on it, and pressed it down with the polished handle of one of his new graving tools. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Habit had graven uneraseably on my memory, every turn and change of object on the road. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• No graven images could enter Jerusalem; even the Roman standards with their eagles had to stay outside. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They behold in the sun the reflection of His glory; mere graven images they reject, refusing to fall under the 'tyranny' of idolatry. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Haroun-al-Raschid himself was a wine-bibber, and his palace was decorated with graven images of birds and beasts and men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• St. John was not a man to be lightly refused: you felt that every impression made on him, either for pain or pleasure, was deep-graved and permanent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Within the lid of the box, I carefully graved with my scissors' point certain initials. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

校对:洛丽塔