the grave• He took that secret with him to the grave.
3somebody would turn in their graveDISAPPROVEused to say that someone who is dead would strongly disapprove of something happening now 某人于九泉之下难以安息〔用于表示即使是死者也会强烈反对〕
The way Bill plays that piece would have Mozart turning in his grave.
The stone marked the grave of their young daughter.
bury somebody in a grave (=put someone in a grave)
She was buried in a grave next to her older sister.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + grave
a shallow grave (=a hole that is not very deep in the ground)
They found the woman’s remains in a shallow grave in the woods.
a mass grave (=one that is filled with many people, especially people killed in a war or people who died of a disease at a similar time)
Plague victims were buried in a mass grave.
an unmarked grave (=one that does not have anything to show where it is or who is in it)
Until 1855, poor people here were buried in unmarked graves.
a family grave (=one where members of a family are buried together)
Walter died in 1922 and was buried in the family grave in Finchley cemetery.
an open grave (=one that has not yet been covered in earth)
He wept by her open grave.
grave + NOUN
a grave site (=the place where a grave is)
The president visited the grave sites of 12 youths killed in recent bombings.
Examples from the Corpus
grave• One of two silvercups found together with a set of wine-drinking utensils in a grave.• The miracles which have since occurred at his grave have confirmed his holiness.• Beethoven may be rolling over in his grave, but audienceslove it.• And do the different types of gravereflect different periods or something else?• Her body was found buried in a shallowgrave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.• In fact, none of the graves has any marker at all, and the graveyard itself is unmarked and untended.• This band will not go to their graves with their songs still in them.
grave2 ●●○adjectiveadj
1SERIOUS PERSONgrave problems, situations, or worries are very great or bad 严重的,重大的,严峻的 → serious
Matthew’s life is in grave danger.
马修的生命危在旦夕。
The report expressed grave concern over the technicians’ lack of training.
grave• "We might be too late, " she said gravely.• His expression was grave and he looked deep in thought.• Holmes looked grave, and stood deep in worried thought for a minute or two.• The ambassadordeclared that there would be graveconsequences if the hostages were not released.• A thickfogdescended on the mountain, and I knew that we were in gravedanger.• I have gravedoubts that this new government will last.• Dr. Fromm looked grave. "I have some bad news, " he said.• "It would be a gravemistake, " said the president, "to ignore the problem, and pretend that it will go away."• Although, now she came to think about it, maybe such caution had been a grave mistake.• a grave mistake• Oppenheimer was, by nature, a philosophical, rather grave person, but some of his colleagues were anything but.• There was a graverisk that the operation would leave him partly paralysed.• Luch looked over at Hector for his smile before bowinggravethanks.• The advance of the diseasepresents a gravethreat to the livestockindustry.• The situation is grave -- war now seems inevitable.• His expression became very grave when we told him what had happened.
grave doubts• There must, too, be the gravest doubts about a system which excludes those who prefer not to join a union.• Gryschenko, 42, from Kiev, had had grave doubts about doing the first leg of the race.• For decades, the party even had grave doubts about his politics.• I have grave doubts about that.• I had grave doubts about where he might take it.• In my talk with Alec he himself expressedgrave doubts whether he wished to take it on.
grave• I felt the sinkingwhir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave.• His expression was grave and he looked deep in thought.• Although, now she came to think about it, maybe such caution had been a grave mistake.• Those who see all the monuments as tombsargue that graverobbersremoved the evidence.• Prosecutors said Saturday that the professedpsychic is being held on chargesranging from graverobbery to conspiracy to misleadofficials.• Luch looked over at Hector for his smile before bowing grave thanks.• The advance of the disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + GRAVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deep, shallow深墓穴;淺墓穴◇The body was found in a shallow grave.這具屍體是在一個淺墓穴中發現的。➤open敞開的墓穴◇The mourners threw flowers into the open grave.哀悼者把鮮花投進未掩埋的墓穴。➤fresh, freshly dug新墓穴;新挖的墓穴▸➤unmarked無碑刻的墳墓◇His body is buried in an unmarked grave.他的屍體埋在一個沒有標記的墳墓中。➤common, communal, mass公共墓地;集體墓地;萬人塚◇A mass grave has been discovered outside the town.城外發現了一個萬人坑。➤watery葬身水中◇He rescued her from a watery grave (= saved her from drowning).他把她從水中救起。➤early過早死去◇She smoked herself into an early grave (= died young as a result of smoking).她因吸煙而過早離世。VERB + GRAVE➤dig挖掘墓穴▸➤mark標記墓穴◇The grave was marked by a simple headstone.墳墓上只豎着一塊簡陋的墓碑。➤desecrate褻瀆墳墓◇Some of the graves have been desecrated by vandals.一些墓穴被人肆意破壞了。➤visit上墳;掃墓◇Whenever he goes home he visits his mother's grave.他每次回家都給母親上墳。PREPOSITION➤beyond the grave死後◇The old lady still influences the family from beyond the grave.這個老太太死後仍影響着全家。➤in a/the grave在墓中◇I'll be in my grave by the time that happens!到那時候我已經命喪黃泉了!➤on a/the grave在墳上◇She puts fresh flowers on her husband's grave every Sunday.她每週日都要在丈夫的墳頭上放一些鮮花。