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 burning building became an inferno.
  燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
• It had become white-hot everywhere. a real inferno.
  到处被烧得白热。一场真正的大火。
• 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。
• 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。
• Let the inferno consume you!
  让地狱的烈焰吞噬你们！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• I have to admit that receiving calls from incredulous Inferno artists is rather satisfying.
  我不得不承认，接到火情离谱艺术家是相当让人满意。
• 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。