inferno

英 [ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ]

美 [ɪnˈfɜːrnoʊ]

n.  无法控制的大火

复数：infernos　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.21221 / COCA.18943

牛津词典

noun

• 无法控制的大火
  a very large dangerous fire that is out of control
  1. a blazing/raging inferno
     熊熊的 / 烈焰冲天的火海

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 大火灾
  If you refer to a fire as aninferno, you mean that it is burning fiercely and causing great destruction.
  1. Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.
     救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。

英英释义

noun

• a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  Synonym:conflagration
• any place of pain and turmoil
  1. the hell of battle
  2. the inferno of the engine room
  3. when you're alone Christmas is the pits
  Synonym:hellhell on earthhellholesnake pitthe pits

双语例句

• The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and blue sky.
  撒哈拉沙漠作为一个由沙丘和蓝天构成的恒古地狱时刻威胁着我们。
• Parsons, at the centre of an inferno of sound, is going mad.
  帕森斯置身于人声鼎沸的中心，简直要发疯了。
• She dashed out of her tent, her nightgown flapping at her legs, the hangings of her own tent now alight and blazing up behind her in an inferno of panic.
  她冲出帐篷，睡袍拍打着她的双腿，身后她自己的帐篷帷幕已经燃着了，烧成了一座恐怖的地狱。
• Helicopter crews far above the inferno felt the heat.
  直升机机组在距离炼狱更高的上空仍感觉到了热浪。
• This was an inferno of pain and smell and noise and hurry hurry hurry!
  这是一个充满了痛苦、臭味、喧嚣和忙乱的地狱&忙乱，多么忙乱啊！
• It had become white-hot everywhere. a real inferno.
  到处被烧得白热。一场真正的大火。
• He saw a policeman pull a man out of the inferno of his blazing car.
  他看见一个警察从正在燃烧的汽车的火海中把一个人拖出来。
• Instead, imagine a cross between the monsters from Dead Space and Dante's Inferno.
  相反，设法想象从死海之间的空间和但丁的地狱的怪物交叉。
• Inferno: Unleashes a stream of fire that deals continuous damage to an enemy.
  地狱火：释放一道火流对一个敌人造成持续伤害。
• Dante is distracted by noises when he is visiting the inferno.
  但丁在炼狱中游历时，听到其他的声音而分心。