grave1
noun /ɡreɪv/
/ɡreɪv/
Idioms - a place in the ground where a dead person is buried
坟墓；墓穴；坟头 - We visited Grandma's grave.
我们给祖母扫了墓。 - British war graves in France and Belgium
法国和比利时的英国战争坟墓 - in a grave The plague victims were buried in a mass grave.
瘟疫受害者被埋在一个万人坑里。 - on a grave There were flowers on the grave.
坟上有些花。
Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Life stagesc1- A mass grave has been discovered in a wood outside the village.
在村外树林里发现了一个集体墓穴。 - A mass grave has been discovered outside the town.
城外发现了一个万人坑。 - His body is buried in an unmarked grave.
他的尸体埋在一个没有标记的坟墓中。 - She puts fresh flowers on her husband's grave every Sunday.
她每周日都要在丈夫的坟头上放一些鲜花。 - Some of the graves have been desecrated by vandals.
一些墓穴被人肆意破坏了。 - The body was found in a shallow grave in a nearby wood.
这具尸体是在附近树林的一个浅墓穴中发现的。 - The grave was marked by a simple headstone.
坟墓上只竖着一块简陋的墓碑。 - The mourners threw flowers into the open grave.
哀悼者把鲜花投进未掩埋的墓穴。 - Whenever he goes home he visits his mother's grave.
他每次回家都给母亲上坟。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- shallow
- open
- …
- dig
- mark
- desecrate
- …
- beyond the grave
- in a/the grave
- on a/the grave
- …
- We visited Grandma's grave.
- [singular](often the grave)(usually literary) a way of referring to death or a person’s death
死亡；去世；逝世 - Is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)?
人死后有来生吗？ - He followed her to the grave (= died soon after her).
他紧跟着她离开了人世。 - She smoked herself into an early grave (= died young as a result of smoking).
她因抽烟而早逝。
- He rescued her from a watery grave (= from drowning)
他把她从水中救起。 - I'll be in my grave by the time that happens!
到那时候我已经命丧黄泉了！ - The old lady still influences the family from beyond the grave.
这个老太太死后仍影响着全家。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- shallow
- open
- …
- dig
- mark
- desecrate
- …
- beyond the grave
- in a/the grave
- on a/the grave
- …
- Is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)?
词源Old English græf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch graf and German Grab. The adjective dates from late 15th cent. (originally of a wound in the sense ‘severe, serious’): from Old French grave or Latin gravis ‘heavy, serious’.
Idioms
dig your own grave | dig a grave for yourself
- to do something that will have very harmful results for you
自掘坟墓；自取灭亡；自己害自己
Wordfinder
- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
from the cradle to the grave
- a way of referring to the whole of a person’s life, from birth until death
一生；一世；从生到死
have one foot in the grave
- (informal) to be so old or ill that you are not likely to live much longer
行将就木；命不久矣；大去之期不远
turn in his/her grave (British English)
(North American English also roll (over) in his/her grave)
- (of a person who is dead
亡者 九泉之下不得安宁 - My father would turn in his grave if he knew.
我父亲知道的话在九泉之下也会不得安宁的。
- My father would turn in his grave if he knew.