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An inferno is a huge, roaring, out-of-control fire — much bigger and scarier than a normal fire. News reports use it for or building that are hard to stop. It comes from the Italian word for hell, so it always carries that sense of something and destructive, never a small .
大火、烈焰（常指難以控制的大火）
組成From Italian 'inferno', meaning hell, from Latin 'infernus' (below, the underworld).
同家族的字
- infernalshares the same Latin root, meaning 'of hell' or 'terrible'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
infernonoun/ɪnˈfɝnoʊ/
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A place or situation resembling Hell.
- At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater].
- When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he […] found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing beds, the source and fountain of them all[, and t]he workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases.
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A large fire; a conflagration.
- The inferno ripped through the forest, destroying anything in its path.
- Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。