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

• 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？
• [ 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。
• The group's members, mostly Roman Catholics, risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland.
  地下委员会的成员大多数是天主教徒，冒着生命危险将犹太人从纳粹控制的波兰拯救出来。
• There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination.
  那就会发生超乎想像的核屠杀。
• Fidel Castro was critical of you for denying the Holocaust.
  卡斯特罗对你否认犹太大持批评立场。
• 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。
• Because of that suffering and because Jews were victims, many Jews in America are active politically, to ensure that another holocaust does not occur to Israel or to the Jewish people.
  因为这些悲惨的遭遇，因为犹太人是受害者，所以很多美国的犹太人就积极参与政事，以保证屠杀犹太人的事件不再会在以色列国家和犹太人民身上重演。
• Doing business with the Nazis during the holocaust.
  和纳粹党做生意发大财。
• They did their best to play up the so-called holocaust of nuclear war to intimidate the people.
  他们拼命喧染所谓的核战争灾祸来吓唬人民。
• 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。