holocaust是什么意思？

holocaust

英[ˈhɒləkɔ:st] 美[ˈhɑləkɔst]

• n. 大屠杀，浩劫，毁灭；

复数：holocausts;

例句

• It is unthinkable that we shall allow a nuclear holocaust to occur. 我们若竟让核武器大屠杀的惨剧发生，简直是匪夷所思。
• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust. 奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the 1950s. 核灾难在20世纪50年代似乎真的非常可能发生。
• Viewing this holocaust , they gave up any hope of living. 看见这个奇异的景象, 众人对自己的命运不能够再有丝毫的疑惑了.
• ...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
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  （尤指战争引起的）大屠杀，大毁灭，浩劫
  A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.
  例句
  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 Holocaust is used to refer to the killing by the Nazis of millions of Jews during the Second World War.
  例句
  ...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

英汉词典释义

• n.
  大屠杀
  The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust. 奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。 It is unthinkable that we shall allow a nuclear holocaust to occur. 我们若竟让核武器大屠杀的惨剧发生，简直是匪夷所思。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. an act of great destruction and loss of life