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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'This sentence is the result of grave errors,' he continued with emphasis, 'and ought to be reversed for the following reasons: First, the reading in the indictment of the description of the entrails of Smelkoff was interrupted by the justiciary at the very beginning.'--One."
-- With a sad and grave face and with the greatest politeness, Nekhludoff thanked the lawyer's wife for the invitation, pleaded other engagements and went into the reception-room.
-- said Nekhludoff, rising, and wondering why the deacon's daughter should want him, assumed a grave expression and went to the woodsman's hut.
-- Oh, if you don't wish to, it is all the same to me," she said, angrily, interpreting the grave expression on Nekhludoff's face to her disadvantage.
-- He did not notice the grave expression on Nekhludoff's face, nor hear what he was saying, but irresistibly dragged him into the reception-room.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tired though we all were, two were sent out for firewood; two more were set to dig a grave for Redruth; the doctor was named cook; I was put sentry at the door; and the captain himself went from one to another, keeping up our spirits and lending a hand wherever it was wanted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This fact, so grave in itself, might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if, three weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances.
-- Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted.
-- An old gunner with a grey beard that I can see now with steady eye and grave face, went up to the gun and took a long aim.
-- Besides, I trusted to the future to decide this grave question.
-- "Professor, you must not confound statics with dynamics or you will be exposed to grave errors.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was dark, the market-place was hot with kerosene flares, which threw a ruddy light on the grave faces of the purchasing wives, and on the pale abstract faces of the men.
-- Billy seemed angelic like a cherub boy, or like an acolyte, Birkin was a tall, grave angel looking down to him.
-- she said, with grave laughter in her voice.
-- Gudrun was looking at him with large, grave eyes, that seemed to draw the confession from him as the marrow from his bones.
-- And yet her large, grave eyes upon him seemed to open some valve in his veins, and involuntarily he was telling.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them; and Catherine, on her part, had no idea why her father should be crosser and less patient in his ailing condition than he was in his prime.
-- I cried angrily; 'if he is not killed, he'll be an idiot!Oh!I wonder his mother does not rise from her grave to see how you use him.
-- Mr. Kenneth says he would wager his mare that he'll outlive any man on this side Gimmerton, and go to the grave a hoary sinner; unless some happy chance out of the common course befall him.
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