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

• 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？
• 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。
• The burning building became an inferno.
  燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
• I think there is an inferno in the company kitchen.
  我觉得公司的厨房着火了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。