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单词 inferno
释义 in·fer·no
\ə̇nˈfər(ˌ)nō, -ˈfə̄(ˌ)-, -ˈfəi(ˌ)-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Italian, hell (especially as the title of one of the books of the Divina Commedia, long allegorical & philosophical poem by Dante Alighieri died 1321 Italian poet), from Late Latin infernus — more at infernal
1. : a place or a state of torment and suffering
 < the inferno of the passions — Edmund Wilson >
 < inferno of war >
 < inferno of seething misery and poverty — G.B.Shaw >
2. : a place that resembles or suggests hell in being dark, noisy, chaotic, lawless
 < the factory seemed an inferno of dirt and noise >
 < plunge into the inferno of the engine room — Joseph Whitehill >
3. : intense heat
 < roaring inferno of the blast furnace >
: conflagration
 < girders melted in the inferno >
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