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 grievous ['gri:vәs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 痛苦的, 严重的, 充满悲伤的

[法] 极大的, 严重的, 惨无人道的


  1. She fainted when she heard the grievous news.
    她听到这个噩耗,昏过去了。
  2. In the legal sense the intention to cause grievous bodily harm constitutes murder if the victim dies.
    在法律意义上,如果受害人死亡,造成重伤的意图构成谋杀。
  3. A grievous loss.
    一个使人悲痛的损失


grievous
[ adj ]
  1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

  2. <adj.all>
    a dangerous operation
    a grave situation
    a grave illness
    grievous bodily harm
    a serious wound
    a serious turn of events
    a severe case of pneumonia
    a life-threatening disease
  3. causing or marked by grief or anguish

  4. <adj.all>
    a grievous loss
    a grievous cry
    her sigh was heartbreaking
    the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
  5. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

  6. <adj.all>
    grave responsibilities
    faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
    a grievous fault
    heavy matters of state
    the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
  7. shockingly brutal or cruel

  8. <adj.all>
    murder is an atrocious crime
    a grievous offense against morality
    a grievous crime
    no excess was too monstrous for them to commit


Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
{Grief}.]
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
bear; offensive; harmful.

The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii.
10.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
--Gen. xxi.
11.

2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.

3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. --
{Griev"ous*ness}, n.

  1. But both came to the conclusion that the dangers if no UN force were sent to Yugoslavia would be even more grievous. There are, Mr Goulding explains, two kinds of peacekeeping operations.
  2. But yesterday, Mr. Rough admitted he had "breached a trust" and made a "grievous mistake."
  3. "I think it's a grievous mistake" to underestimate Quayle's debating ability, especially on television, he said.
  4. I believe them to be prisoners of the same gorily malfunctioning maleness that leads to wars and death camps. If you ask me, they have grievous sexual hang-ups.
  5. What's more, the four major California banks, including First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles, generate such huge earnings before taxes and loan-loss provisions that they can heal rapidly from even grievous real-estate wounds.
  6. The football owners' insistence that they will field pickup teams if the walkout doesn't end soon would be another, and a grievous one.
  7. "We have committed a grievous mistake," Maduro added. "We attacked our own business establishments while the Americans were attacking military targets only." Here is a brief summary of events Wednesday in Panama: _ Gen.
  8. Court officials say she faces four charges of kidnapping and four of assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm.
  9. With Mexico City suffering a smog emergency, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ordered the permanent closure of an oil refinery that is one of the capital city's most grievous polluters.
  10. Hamadi also was convicted of hostage-taking and three counts of causing grievous bodily harm in the beatings of Stethem and two other American passengers, Clinton Suggs and Kurt Carlson of Rockford, Ill. Suggs is a native of Elkhart, Ind.
  11. Cotton has for years been one of the most grievous examples of federal destruction of a market.
  12. The newspaper reminded its readers that Japan "has inflicted some grievous sufferings on Korea and its people."
  13. "Neither consoling words nor monetary damages can be expected to fully compensate the truly grievous injury Mrs. Edwards sustained and will continue to endure," the judge said in his opinion, which was issued Friday.
  14. "He has made grievous errors of judgment," said The Sun. "She (Mrs. Thatcher) cannot protect him from charges of lethargy.
  15. The third shows a tragedy avoided because of the use of the telephone line. Sir Patrick said: 'It is not the government's wish to re-open grievous and painful wounds.
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