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N-COUNT
墓穴；墳墓；埋葬處
A grave is a place where a dead person is buried.
例句
They used to visit her grave twice a year.
他們以前每年去她的墓前憑吊兩次。
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N-COUNT
死亡;終結
You can refer to some-one's death as their grave or to death as the grave .
例句
...drinking yourself to an early grave...
縱酒而自折其壽
Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
大多數男人寧死都不愿承認有依賴感。
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ADJ-GRADED
嚴重的；重大的；嚴峻的
A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.
例句
He said that the situation in his country is very grave...
他說他的國家情況十分危急。
I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
我對這些文件能否說明所有的問題深表懷疑。
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ADJ-GRADED
嚴肅的；表情沉重的
A grave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour.
例句
William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked grave...
威廉在屋頂上呆了一段時間，他下來的時候面色凝重。
Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.
她忐忑不安地審視著他異常嚴肅的臉色。
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ADJ
. 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'
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PHRASE
自掘墳墓；自取滅亡
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.
例句
The magazine isn't trying to ruin his career, the man's digging his own grave by refusing an interview.
這份雜志并非想斷送他的事業，而他拒絕接受采訪就是在自毀前程。
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PHRASE
九泉之下不得安寧
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.
例句
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，達爾文在九泉之下一定不得安寧。