A currency crisis is something that is not supposed to happen these days. The very idea evokes images form old newsreels, with grave statesmen in top hast emerging from limousines to urge calm in gravelly voices. But suddenly Europe is up to its eyebrows in one.
grav.el.ly adj.(形容词)Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles:沙砾多的,含砂砾的:铺满或覆盖着岩石碎片或鹅卵石的:例句:a gravelly beach.碎石滩 Having a harsh rasping sound:发出沙哑、刺耳声的:例句:a gravelly voice.沙哑、刺耳的嗓音