grave是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 严重的; 严肃的, 庄重的; n. 墓，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!'
-- Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
-- Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and fol-lowing the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge.
-- The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the chil-41dren had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger.
-- He was quiet and attentive; watched the 87opening proceedings with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab of wood before him, so com-posedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn.
-- But, there my Lord interposed (with as grave a face as if it had not been true), saying that he could not sit upon that Bench and suffer those allusions.
-- Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, with-out any apparent reason.
-- He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so ten-derly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the old grave woman, who was appointed to look after Death's great greenhouse!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he shook his head disapprovingly, as though he had grave doubts whether this game were worth the candle.
-- After his departure, he had to finish the daily routine of business with his secretary, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great personage on a matter of grave and serious import.
-- There was an interval of hesitation, whispering, and smiles; but the expression of solemn emotion on the faces of the betrothed pair did not change: on the contrary, in their perplexity over their hands they looked more grave and deeply moved than before, and the smile with which Stepan Arkadyevitch whispered to them that now they would each put on their own ring died away on his lips.
-- "I must talk with you of a grave and painful subject.
-- And the doctor's face was so grave as he said it that Levin took THE END as meaning her death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg did not betray the least disappointment; but the situation was a grave one.
-- Did he understand that he had made a grave mistake?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother they had buried near the Monongahela--the girl herself had heaped with torn sods the grave beside the river of the beautiful name.
-- On their evenings off they went economically to an imitation Coney Island beside a scummy and stinking lake, and with grave pleasure they ate Hot Dogs, painstakingly they rode the scenic railway.
-- He was shy before the spectacled gravity of the five Trustees as they sat, like a Supreme Court, at the dais table in Bonanza Hall-- Gottlieb a little removed, also trying to look grave and supreme.
-- That evening, the hot breeze languished along the palm-waving ridge where the ashes of Gustaf Sondelius were lost among cinders, and a depression in a garden marked the grave of Leora.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who 'gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.'
-- Near his grandmoth-84 Crime and Punishmenter's grave, which was marked by a stone, was the little grave of his younger brother who had died at six months old.
-- And yet he had a very grave prob-lem before him, to put it back and to escape observation as far as possible in doing so.
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