grim
美 [ɡrɪm]
英 [ɡrɪm] 
- adj.严肃的;坚定的;阴冷的;令人不快的
- 网络严酷的;严厉的;冷酷的
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比较级:grimmer 最高级:grimmest 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | 严肃的;坚定的;阴冷的looking or sounding very serious |
| a grim face/look/smile 严肃的面孔╱表情;冷笑 |
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| with a look of grim determination on his face 他脸上带有的坚定不移的神态 |
| grim-faced policemen 表情严肃的警察 |
2. | 令人不快的;令人沮丧的unpleasant and depressing |
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| 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。 |
| The outlook is pretty grim. 前景令人甚感忧虑。 |
| 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。 |
3. | 无吸引力的;阴森的;凄凉的not attractive; depressing |
| 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 |
| I feel grim this morning. 我今天早上感到不舒服。 |
5. | [nubn]
质量低劣;糟糕of very low quality |
| Their performance was fairly grim, I'm afraid! 很遗憾,他们的表现真不怎么样! |
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例句
Job prospects were grim though, and she said she'd take anything, even "working for a family" (a euphemism for domestic service).
工作前景很糟糕,她说她什么也做不了,“对家庭也一样”(家政服务的委婉说法)。
The grim figure leaves no doubt that serious pain awaits in the form of increased poverty and unemployment.
毫无疑问,这个可怕的数字将带来新增失业和贫穷,令人们备受煎熬。
As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.
随着NBA选秀的临近,姚明左脚伤势的严峻事实像一块铁砧悬在休斯敦火箭上空。
All come determined to be happy, with the kind of grim resolve with which one determines not to make a fuss at the dentist's .
大家来时都打定了主意要寻欢作乐,仿佛咬紧牙齿,决意不要在牙医生那里大惊小怪一般。
In the face of this grim picture, you might have expected policy makers to realize that they haven't yet done enough to promote recovery.
面对如此惨淡之景象,你或许期望政策制定者意识到他们没有做足够的事情促进经济复苏。
Even with ideal circumstances, the possibility would be grim that she could lose this amount of weight in such a short period.
就算是在最理想的情况下,她能在这么短的时间里减去那么多体重的几率也是很小的。
So I stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness.
我就这么站着,凝视着,对自己的孤苦伶仃感到一种残忍的满足。
Part of the experiment is to determine how much grim information people actually want to know about their own bodies.
而试验的一部分是为了确定人们对于自己身体的不良信息,真正想知道多少。
was to abduct Mary and take her to his grim castle in Dunbar.
是把玛丽劫持到他在邓巴那可怕的城堡
Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy, but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim, black stone.
建筑物的大都很古老了,墙壁上爬满了深绿色的常春藤;可是某些却是最近刚砌成的,材料是阴森的黑色石块。
The fear was that if these were to unwind rapidly, with confidence evaporating in the US economy and the dollar, the outcome would be grim.
人们担心,一旦贸易失衡状况迅速纾解,外界对美国经济和美元的信心消散,后果将相当严重。
Finally, not to put too grim reflection on it, but life is uncertain. We do not know what tomorrow will bring.
最后要记住的是对于现在的工作不要过分纠结,但是生活是无常的,我们不知道明天会发生些什么。
Well, at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow.
在这个时候,危机开始地希腊只不过是一出令人不快的穿插节目。
This was no grim duty to which I stoically resigned, however.
然而,这并非我须坚忍顺从的痛苦职责。
It is also easy to see how further inaction, half-steps, and wrong steps by leaders could make these and other grim turns much more likely.
很容易看出,领导人的继续不作为,三心二意,走错路会使这些以及其它许多骇人局势变得可能。
Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often thought of as a grim figure.
由于他是冥界的掌管者,哈迪斯通常被认为是一个严酷的神。
Round and round here went the enormous revolutions of the dark colossal water- wheel , grim with its one immutable purpose .
那只黑黑的大水车轮转来转去转个不停,象是它有一种不可改变的可怕的意图。
But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast.
只有总数发展到若干个可怕的数字时,才会撤回晚间新闻的头版头条。
The reality of life is always so grim, Laksa sleep eat and drink, fuel, which do not want you to worry about the same?
而现实的人生总是那么严峻,吃喝拉撒睡,油盐酱醋柴,哪一样不要你操心?
Imagine, though, how grim things would have been if yesterday's announcement had instead been a presidential no-show.
想象一下,如果昨天总统未作出宣言而是放了大家鸽子,事实将多么严酷。
So I stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness.
我就这么站着,凝视着,对自己的孤苦伶仃感到一种残忍的满足。
It also made him smile, in a grim way, to see how fate was raining difficulties on him.
看到命运怎样把灾难象雨点般降到他身上,使他笑了一下,冷冷地一笑。
Whenever a man in the platoon or company had been killed he would feel a grim and quiet satisfaction.
排里或连里有弟兄牺牲了,他每次总是硬了硬心肠,暗暗松一口气。
He made grim jokes about death and ghosts.
他讲了些有关死与鬼的令人毛骨悚然的笑话。
The father stood over them in turn, implacable and grim, driving them though never raising his voice again.
父亲苛刻而又严厉,向她们一一指点着。虽然他再也没有大声喊叫,但仍在驱使她们不停地干活。
It so happened, however, that the final grim necessity of acting on any such idea was spared him.
不过,碰巧最后他并没有十分必要实行这种计划。
A smaller grim door on the left hand admitted to the stone staircase, and the rooms on the ground floor.
左边一扇较小的坚固的门,通向一道石梯,以及楼下的房间。
As for next year's trend of exports, not to be grim To open up emerging markets may be ripe to make up for shrinking market impact.
至于明年的出口走势,亦未许乐观,开拓新兴市场则可弥补成熟市场萎缩带来的影响。
Faced with such a grim panorama, this week Mrs Clinton returned to Mexico City, accompanied by the entire American national-security team.
面对如此严峻的局势,本周克林顿重访墨西哥城,国家安全小组全体随同前往。
She collected at least six lightsabers from her fallen foes as grim trophies, and brandished her own scarlet-bladed Jedi weapon.
她收藏了至少六把光剑,都是杀死对手后取得的战利品。
Set against the grim mood of a year ago, all this is generally encouraging.
相较于一年前黯淡的情绪,这一切总体上都令人振奋。
She looked at me with a grim smile.
她冷笑地看着我。
Many analysts seem to believe that this is the case and point to investors' composure in the face of latest grim statistics.
许多分析师相信这是事实,并指出面对最近残酷经济数据时投资者表现镇静。
And with those at the top having such a grim time, it is unrealistic to expect any excitement at the bottom.
顶层的人们都过得如此艰难,底层的人们想要有些激动之处就更加不现实了。
I returned to the White House from a fund-raiser at about 11 p. m. and went to Leon's office to hear the grim message.
晚上约11点,我从一场募捐会返回到白宫,我去了列昂的办公室,听到了这个令人不愉快的消息。
With 1. 3 billion people like this, able to grind out the toughest and most grim situations, no wonder they will be the next super power.
13亿人同样如此,能机械地坚韧近乎冷酷地面对这种情况,所以无怪乎他们是一个超级大国。
This grim record makes it near-impossible for outsiders to take seriously Sudan's claims that it is trying to minimise the violence.
这些令人毛骨悚然的纪录近乎不可能让外界真心接受苏丹所谓正在努力将暴力降至最小程度的宣传。
Kurt made his way to the twelve o'clock point, to Mendez, Mark, and Tom. Chief Mendez met him. The old man had never looked so grim.
库尔特前进到十二点方向,那里是门德兹,马克和汤姆。门德兹军士长跟他会合。这个老男人从来没看起来这么冷酷。
The meeting was to include a discussion via video conference with McChrystal, whose grim assessment of the war was leaked last month.
会议中,他们会通过视频与麦克里斯特尔将军进行讨论,因其对阿富汗战争所做出的不乐观的评估报告于上月泄露了。
Like many middle-class families, Cortney Munnaand her mother began the college selection process with a grim determination.
和许多中产阶级家庭一样,科特妮•穆纳(CortneyMunna)和她的母亲开始选择大学的时候,决心非常坚定。
In recent years, the employment situation is grim have been a major problem what China's economic and social development is facing.
近年来,就业形势严峻一直是我国经济和社会发展面临的一大难题。
The job situation in China is grim, so effective measures must be taken to help new graduates, migrant workers or other groups, he said.
中国的就业形势比较严峻,所以必须采取有效的措施来帮助毕业生,外来务工人员或其他团体。
The tips are just as grim for widows, who must spend their remaining years faithful to 'his body, his memory and his children'.
这些提示只是对孀妇比较无情,她们必须在余生忠于“他的身体,他的回忆和他的孩子”。
I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step.
我祝愿他们能有个机会把他们所接受的每一点滴教育作经验来品尝,而不是为人生下一步作严酷的准备。
Whenever you fail to ask this question, you can bet there's a more important project being stalked by the Grim Reaper.
每当你没能问这个问题,就可以断定,一件更重要的事正在靠近死神。
As they leave the courthouse, a lawyer turns to his grim-looking client and says, "Janez, what's wrong? You were acquitted. "
离开法庭的时候,律师看他的当事人一脸不高兴的样子,很纳闷:“简内兹,怎么了,你不是获得释放了吗?”
That's when Kevin strides into view with a 20-pound bag of mulch over one shoulder, his mouth set in a grim line of manly purpose.
这时凯文肩上扛着一个20磅的地膜袋大步走过来了,为了显得男子汉气,他的嘴紧绷着。