grievous
英 [ˈɡriː.vəs]
美 [ˈɡriː.vəs]
将“grievous”与“grieve”(悲伤)联系起来,想象一个人因为某种严重的、无法轻易解决的事情而感到极其悲伤,从而记住“grievous”表示非常严重或痛苦的。
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- grievous (adj.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French grevous (Old French grevos) "heavy, large, weighty; hard, difficult, toilsome," from grief (see grief). Legal term grievous bodily harm attested from 1803.
- 1. Mr Morris said the victims had suffered from a very grievous mistake.
- 莫里斯先生说遇难者因为一个极其严重的失误而遭遇不幸。
- 2. Their loss would be a grievous blow to our engineering industries.
- 失去它们将会是对我们工程行业的一个沉重打击。
- 3. They were both found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.
- 他们两人都被判造成他人严重人身伤害的罪名成立。
- 4. He had been the victim of a grievous injustice.
- 他曾遭受极不公正的待遇。
- 5. He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
- 他被控蓄意严重伤害他人身体.