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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I think there is an inferno in the company kitchen.
  我觉得公司的厨房着火了。
• The building was now a raging inferno.
  这座大楼现在正烈焰熊熊。
• The burning building became an inferno.
  燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
• 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。