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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He picked up her black fan from the counterand began fanning her solicitously, too solicitously, his face grave but his eyes still dancing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's true, Mum," said Mr. Pumblechook, with a grave nod.
-- "I am not aware," observed the grave lady whose voice I had heard but once, "that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear."
-- "Thinking is easy enough," said the grave lady.
-- interposed the grave lady.
-- I took it upon myself to impress Biddy (and through Biddy, Joe) with the grave obligation I considered my friends under, to know nothing and say nothing about the maker of my fortune.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.
-- Soon afterwards she shut her eyes and died, and was buried in the garden; and the little girl went every day to her grave and wept, and was always good and kind to all about her.
-- Then she took it, and went to her mother's grave and planted it there; and cried so much that it was watered with her tears; and there it grew and became a fine tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their sev-eral deputies.
-- They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit.
-- This was always the office of some grave trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in the court, when Glumdalclitch happened to be out of order; for I soon began to be known and esteemed 137among the greatest officers, I suppose more upon account of their majesties' favour, than any merit of my own.
-- Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old trea-tise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch's bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, 171who dealt in writings of morality and devotion.
-- That whoever had one foot in the grave was sure to hold back the other as strongly as he could.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the way to Stone Lodge, as with grave indignation he led the two delinquents home, he repeated at intervals 'What would Mr. Bounderby say?
-- Here his daughter Josephine a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies cried, 'Father, hush!she has come back!'
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
-- It seemed now hours and hours since she had left the lost man lying in the grave where he had been buried alive.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ever since we have been at Stapi, my mind has been almost solely occupied with the grave question which has been submitted to me by yourself--for nothing would be unwiser and more inconsistent than to act with imprudence."
-- The good, and peaceful, and imperturbable Hans would certainly not have arisen from his sleep without some serious and grave motive.
-- The grave and impassible Icelander devoted himself to us with the most incomprehensible sang-froid and ease; and, thanks to him, many a dangerous pass was got over, where, but for him, we should inevitably have stuck fast.
-- My uncle was watching--his eyes fixed intently on my countenance, a grave expression on his face, a tear in his eye.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, but listen!Don't interrupt the great man's solemn words! ''The present type of order in the world has risen from an unimaginable part, and will find its grave in an un-imaginable future.
-- She has aired in detail all those incidents of her conjugal life which are usually buried down in the deep-est grave of matrimonial silence, between married couples.
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