grim
adjective /ɡrɪm/
/ɡrɪm/
(comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)
Idioms - looking or sounding very serious
严肃的；坚定的；阴冷的 - a grim face/look/smile
严肃的面孔／表情；冷笑 - She looked grim.
她表情严肃。 - with a look of grim determination on his face
他脸上带有的坚定不移的神态 - He set about the task with grim concentration.
他全神贯注地着手这项任务。 - grim-faced policemen
表情严肃的警察
- There was a grim smile on her face as she approached.
当她走近时，脸上露出一丝冷酷的微笑。 - They clung on to the edge of the boat with grim determination.
他们抱着坚定不移的决心紧紧抓住船的边缘。
- a grim face/look/smile
- unpleasant and depressing
令人不快的；令人沮丧的 - James had some rather grim news.
詹姆斯有一些相当可怕的消息。 - We face the grim prospect of still higher unemployment.
我们面临着失业率进一步上升的暗淡前景。 - Despite the grim forecast, the number of deaths was slightly down on last year.
尽管预测严峻，死亡人数还是比去年略有下降。 - The outlook is pretty grim.
前景令人甚感忧虑。 - This latest attack is a grim reminder of how vulnerable our airports are to terrorist attack.
最近的这次袭击严酷地提醒我们，我们的机场很容易受到恐怖袭击。 - Booth paints a grim picture of life in the next century.
布斯描绘了下一个世纪的严峻生活。 - a grim struggle for survival
无情的生存竞争 - Things are looking grim for workers in the building industry.
对建筑业的工人来说，形势看来很不乐观。 - The accident serves as a grim reminder of what drinking and driving can do.
这起事故无情地提醒了我们酒后驾车会导致什么样的后果。
- James had some rather grim news.
- (of a place or building
地方或建筑物 无吸引力的；阴森的；凄凉的 - The house looked grim and dreary in the rain.
这房子在雨中显得阴郁凄凉。 - the grim walls of the prison
令人抑郁的监狱四壁
- The house looked grim and dreary in the rain.
- [not before noun] (British English, informal) ill
生病的；不舒服的 - I feel grim this morning.
我今天早上感到不舒服。
- I feel grim this morning.
- [not usually before noun] (British English, informal) of very low quality
质量低劣；糟糕 - Their performance was fairly grim, I'm afraid!
很遗憾，他们的表现真不怎么样！
- Their performance was fairly grim, I'm afraid!
词源Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm.
Idioms
hang/hold on for/like grim death (British English)
(also hang/hold on for dear life North American English, British English)
- (informal) to hold somebody/something very tightly or keep something in a very determined way because you are afraid
（害怕得）死死抓住不放，紧紧抓住不松手 - You get a job, then you get a mortgage and then you hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage.
你得到了一份工作，然后你得到了一笔抵押贷款，然后你拼命保住你的工作来偿还抵押贷款。
- You get a job, then you get a mortgage and then you hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage.