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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Eight people survived the inferno.
  八人从地狱中幸存下来。
• 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。