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 first rocky worlds astronomers detect circling other stars could resemble Inferno more than Earth.
  天文学家发现第一个环绕著其他恒星的岩石世界，可能就像我们所说的炼狱。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eight people survived the inferno.
  八人从地狱中幸存下来。