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

• The Earth, in giving up her Serpentine Dance with Planet X, will be making more desperate moves in her attempts to comply with the magnetic holocaust caused by the near presence of Planet X.
  地球放弃了她与行星X的“蛇形舞动”，将极力试图顺从由于行星X靠近而带来的具有巨大破坏力的磁场。
• There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination.
  那就会发生超乎想像的核屠杀。
• Chandler: All right, there's a nuclear holocaust, I'm the last man on Earth.
  如果核爆炸，世界上只剩我一个男人，你会爱我吗？
• He predicted that there would be a world holocaust.
  他预言将有一场世界性的浩劫。
• That the war criminals should be punished is a logical conclusion from the "holocaust".
  战犯的应当惩办，是浩劫的逻辑的结论。
• 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。
• And anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented holocaust.
  欧洲的反犹太主义最终发展成一场史无前例的浩劫。
• 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？
• In East Africa five years of drought have brought about a holocaust in which millions have died.
  东非地区五年的干旱引起上百万人的死亡。
• [ Above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust, he said.
  （超过这个幅度的话）很多岛屿将消失，非洲将遭受浩劫，他表示。