A currency crisis is something that is not supposed to happen these days. The very idea evokes images form old newsreels, with grave statesmen in top hast emerging from limousines to urge calm in gravelly voices. But suddenly 通货危机是现今不应发生的事。谈到这件事就令人想到往昔的新闻影片,政府大员头戴高顶礼帽,表情沉重,从礼宾车里出来,声音沙哑而低沉地促请民众冷静。可是现在突然间欧洲通货危机已迫在眉睫。
A gravelly voice. 沙哑、刺耳的嗓音
”, wooed the ladies with his gravelly voice. 他那沙哑的嗓音,对女性有强烈的吸引力。
gravelly
[ adj ]
abounding in small stones
<adj.all> landed at a shingly little beach
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
<adj.all> a gravelly voice
Gravelly \Grav"el*ly\, a. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
In his gravelly, accented voice, he engaged students in searching dialogues, relishing after-hours bull sessions.
Ms. Tsemel speaks in a gravelly baritone.
His voice is gravelly from years of chain-smoking, he sometimes mumbles or bumps into the microphone, but his words are clear, simple and direct: "Totalitarianism deforms the human soul.