inferno
noun /ɪnˈfɜːnəʊ/
/ɪnˈfɜːrnəʊ/
[usually singular] (plural infernos)
- a very large dangerous fire that is out of control
无法控制的大火 - a blazing/raging inferno
熊熊的／烈焰冲天的火海 - The flames quickly turned the house into a raging inferno.
烈焰很快将房子变成了熊熊火海。 - Three men managed to escape from the inferno.
三个人设法逃离了地狱。
词源mid 19th cent.: from Italian, from Christian Latin infernus ‘below, underground’, used by Christians to mean ‘hell’, on the pattern of inferni (masculine plural) ‘the shades’ and inferna (neuter plural) ‘the lower regions’. - a blazing/raging inferno