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grim
[英] [ɡrim] [美] [ɡrɪm] 生词本

adj.

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1. ADJ-GRADED 严峻的；令人不快的；让人沮丧的；令人难以接受的 A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depress ing, and difficult to accept. 

  • They painted a grim picture of growing crime...

    他们描绘了犯罪率上升的严峻情形。

  • There was further grim economic news yesterday...

    昨天又传来更多令人沮丧的经济消息。

  • The mood could not have been grimmer.

    情绪低落到了极点。

grimness

  • ...an unrelenting grimness of tone.

    语气中一直带着沮丧

2. ADJ-GRADED （地方）无吸引力的，阴森的，凄凉的 A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance. 

  • The city might be grim at first, but there is a vibrancy and excitement.

    这座城市最初可能并不吸引人，但是它有一种生机和活力。

  • ...the tower blocks on the city's grim edges.

    矗立在荒凉的城市边缘的一幢幢塔楼

3. ADJ-GRADED 严肃的；坚定的；沉重的 If a person or their behaviour is grim, they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. 

  • She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth...

    她是个沉默寡言、令人畏惧的女人。

  • Her expression was grim and unpleasant.

    她表情严肃，看上去很不开心。

grimly

  • 'It's too late now to stop him,' Harris said grimly.

    “现在阻止他已经太晚了，”哈里斯严肃地说道。

4. ADJ-GRADED 糟糕的；讨厌的；丑陋的；令人沮丧的 If you say that something is grim, you think that it is very bad, ugly, or depressing. 

  • Things were pretty grim for a time.

    事情一度糟糕透了。

Adjective

1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;

  • "grim determination"
  • "grim necessity"
  • "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
  • "relentless persecution"
  • "the stern demands of parenthood"

2. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;

  • "ghastly wounds"
  • "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
  • "the grim task of burying the victims"
  • "a grisly murder"
  • "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
  • "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
  • "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

3. harshly ironic or sinister;

  • "black humor"
  • "a grim joke"
  • "grim laughter"
  • "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

4. causing dejection;

  • "a blue day"
  • "the dark days of the war"
  • "a week of rainy depressing weather"
  • "a disconsolate winter landscape"
  • "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
  • "a dark gloomy day"
  • "grim rainy weather"

5. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;

  • "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
  • "a forbidding scowl"
  • "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"
  • "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

6. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom;

  • "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
  • "gloomy predictions"
  • "a gloomy silence"
  • "took a grim view of the economy"
  • "the darkening mood"
1. He held on to the branch like grim death.
他紧抓住树枝不松手。

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2. His expression was grim when he told them they had lost their jobs.
当他告诉他们说他们已被解雇时，他的表情十分冷酷。

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3. I've had a grim day.
我过了不愉快的一天。

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4. She stuck to her task like grim death.
她百折不挠地执行任务。

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5. The child hung onto the rail like grim death.
那孩子紧抓住栏杆不放手。

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