grim是什么意思_grim怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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"

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"

harshly ironic or sinister;"black humor"
"a grim joke"
"grim laughter"
"fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

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"

filled with melancholy and despondency ;"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"
"lonely and blue in a strange city"
"depressed by the loss of his job"
"a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
"downcast after his defeat"
"feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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"

中英词源

grim 严肃的，阴冷的

来自PIE*ghrem, 生气的，拟声词，模仿咆哮的声音。

grim: grim: [OE] Indo-European *ghrem-, *ghromprobably originated in imitation of the sound of rumbling (amongst its descendants was grumins ‘thunder’ in the extinct Baltic language Old Prussian). In Germanic it became *grem-, *gram-, *grum-, which not only produced the adjective *grimmaz (source of German grimm, Swedish grym, and English, Dutch, and Danish grim) and the English verb grumble [16], but was adopted into Spanish as grima ‘fright’, which eventually arrived in English as grimace [17].
=> grimace, grumble
grim (adj.): Old English grimm "fierce, cruel, savage; severe, dire, painful," from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German, German grimm "grim, angry, fierce," Old Norse grimmr "stern, horrible, dire," Swedish grym "fierce, furious"), from PIE *ghrem- "angry," perhaps imitative of the sound of rumbling thunder (compare Greek khremizein "to neigh," Old Church Slavonic vuzgrimeti "to thunder," Russian gremet" "thunder").

A weaker word now than it once was; sense of "dreary, gloomy" first recorded late 12c. It also had a verb form in Old English, grimman (class III strong verb; past tense gramm, past participle grummen), and a noun, grima "goblin, specter," perhaps also a proper name or attribute-name of a god, hence its appearance as an element in place names.

Grim reaper as a figurative phrase for "death" is attested by 1847 (the association of grim and death goes back at least to 17c.). A Middle English expression for "have recourse to harsh measures" was to wend the grim tooth (early 13c.).
grim (n.): "spectre, bogey, haunting spirit," 1620s, from grim (adj.).

词态变化

比较级 grimmer;
最高级 grimmest;
副词 grimly;
名词 grimness;

权威造句

1. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes.: 心理测试能够使组织机构避免犯下损失惨重的大错。

2. She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth.: 她是个沉默寡言、令人畏惧的女人。

3. The report paints a grim picture of life there.: 那则报道把那里的生活描绘得很凄惨。

4. Things were pretty grim for a time.: 事情一度糟糕透了。

5. The committee walked out, grim-faced and shocked.: 全体委员走了出去，脸色凝重，大为震惊。

近反义词

cruel

gloomy

hard

severe

相似短语

grim reaper 狰狞持镰收割者(系死神形象

Grim Reaper 狰狞持镰收割者(系死神形象)同义参见:death

grim rectifier 离子管整流器

hold on like grim death v.死不松手

like grim death 拼命地, 牢牢地

单词分析

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记忆方法

1. g (ghost) + rim => grim: 鬼在你的边上、旁边。
2. 前面加鬼(g -> ghost)真恐怖。
3. grim―― g+ rim 鬼在你边上狰狞的, 阴森的

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