holocaust

英 [ˈhɒləkɔːst]

美 [ˈhoʊləkɔːst]

n.  (尤指战争或火灾引起的)大灾难，大毁灭; (20世纪30年代和40年代纳粹对数百万犹太人的)大屠杀

复数：holocausts　

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牛津词典

noun

• （尤指战争或火灾引起的）大灾难，大毁灭
  a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war or a fire
  1. a nuclear holocaust
     核灾难
• （20世纪30年代和40年代纳粹对数百万犹太人的）大屠杀
  the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （尤指战争引起的）大屠杀，大毁灭，浩劫
  Aholocaustis an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.
  1. A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the '50s.
     核灾难在20世纪50年代似乎真的非常可能发生。
• N-SING （第二次世界大战中纳粹对犹太人进行的）大屠杀
  The Holocaustis used to refer to the killing by the Nazis of millions of Jews during the Second World War.
  1. ...an Israeli-based fund for survivors of the Holocaust and their families.
     设在以色列的为大屠杀幸存者及其家人建立的基金

英英释义

noun

• an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
  1. a nuclear holocaust

双语例句

• There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination.
  那就会发生超乎想像的核屠杀。
• When Arendt wrote, humanity was still reeling from the first total war in history, from the revelations of the Holocaust, the pitiful starvation of inmates at Belsen, the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  阿伦特写作的时期，人类仍没有从有史以来第一次全球战争、种族大灭绝的启示、贝尔森集中营饥饿致死的难友所激起的同情、广岛和长崎***爆炸的后果中恢复过来。
• Even if we avoid a nuclear holocaust, the threat from the Kremlin requires us to devote a sizable fraction of our resources to our military defense.
  即使我们避免一场核破坏，来自克里姆林宫的威胁还是要求我们花费了我们相当大的资源用于我们的军事防卫。
• And how would it end in the global Holocaust of science fiction or in a limited exchange of weapons that leaves population centers largely intact?
  又怎么结束呢？其后果是像科幻小说描述的全球浩劫，还是仅限于核武器交锋而人口密集的中心大体上不受损失？
• It's evident they've discussed the most nightmarish aspects of a nuclear holocaust in their classrooms.
  显然他们在课堂上讨论过大规模核破坏的最恐怖的方面。
• He offered also a ram for a holocaust: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head.
  此后，梅瑟把作全燔祭的公绵羊牵来，亚郎和他的儿子按手在羊头上。
• Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?
  依撒格说：「看，这里有火有柴，但是那里有作全燔祭的羔羊？
• Moreover, failure to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction increases the chance for nuclear holocaust.
  此外，制止大规模杀伤性武器扩散的失败增加了核毁灭的可能性。
• The LORD'S fire came down and consumed the holocaust, wood, stones, and dust, and it lapped up the water in the trench.
  于是上主的火降下，焚尽了全燔祭、柴木、石头和尘土，也烧干了沟中的水。
• In that film, decades after a devastating nuclear holocaust, a small band of women roams the landscape looking for food and kicks.
  在影片中，摧毁一切的核灾难已经过去十几年了，一小群女人在山野漫游，寻找食物和刺激。