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。
• 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 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。
• Inferno has all the usual plot elements that Browns legions of fans have come to expect.
  正如布朗的庞大粉丝团所期望的一样，《炼狱》继承了作者写小说中一贯的情节元素。
• 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。
• 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 building was now a raging inferno.
  这座大楼现在正烈焰熊熊。
• I think there is an inferno in the company kitchen.
  我觉得公司的厨房着火了。
• 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。