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

• Think Dante's Inferno and the way that Dante is led around into the different parts of the cosmos.
  想想但丁的《神曲》，但丁是如何被领着到达宇宙各处的。
• Inferno has all the usual plot elements that Browns legions of fans have come to expect.
  正如布朗的庞大粉丝团所期望的一样，《炼狱》继承了作者写小说中一贯的情节元素。
• A little matter involving some gamblers and an annotated copy of Dante's Inferno.
  是件小事，牵涉到几个赌徒和但丁的《地狱篇》的某个注释本。
• 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。
• The building was a raging inferno minutes after the fire started.
  火灾发生数分钟后，这幢建筑物便成了一片熊熊火海。
• The Inferno, one of the three parts of The Divine Comedy, was a common reference in French art and literature during this time.
  地狱，其中三部分的神曲，是一个共同的参考，在法国艺术与文学的这段时间。
• 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。
• Ancient olympia-firefighters saved the temples and stadiums of ancient olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games, from forest fires which razed nearby villages and took the death toll from greece's three-day Inferno to60.
  消防队员拯救了古老的奥林匹亚寺庙和运动场，奥林匹克的发源地。因森林引起的火灾已经把其附近的村庄夷为平地，希腊这三天简直是人间地狱火灾导致60人死亡。
• The burning building became an inferno.
  燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
• Martin Riggs: Oh, I got the employ done! What the inferno do you want?
  里格斯：哦，我完成了工作，你到底想要什么？