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

• 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。
• The burning building became an inferno.
  燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
• 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 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。
• Eight people survived the inferno.
  八人从地狱中幸存下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。