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

• 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。
• 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。
• When one of the Holocaust survivors talked about his life in the Nazist concentration camp, there was not a dry eye amongst the audience.
  当一位战时反犹太人政策的生还者谈及他在纳粹集中营的生活时，在听众之中没有一人不流下眼泪。
• 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。
• 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。
• BECK: Most know that the horrors of the Holocaust resulted in the deaths of approximately six million Jews.
  戈：许多人现在都知道希特勒的虐犹大杀戮造成了约六百万犹太人的死亡。
• 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。
• There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination.
  那就会发生超乎想像的核屠杀。
• 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？
• 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。