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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It had become white-hot everywhere. a real inferno.
  到处被烧得白热。一场真正的大火。
• 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？
• It "s not exactly Dante" s Inferno, but Im working on it.
  家里还没有到但丁的《地狱篇》的地步，不过我在努力。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。