holocaust

/'hɔlәkɔ:st/

柯林斯星级

BNC频率: 20487

现代语料频率: 15211

托福雅思 GRE

中文翻译

n. 大屠杀, 大火灾, 毁灭, 大规模烧杀

英文解释

n. an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)

n. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945

词态变化

复数形式:holocausts

常见例句

One of the most common beliefs is of an Elven Holocaust in which humankind supposedly wiped the elves from the Earth, despite the fact that no such evidence, archaeological or otherwise, exists anywhere in the geologic record either for the supposed holocaust, let alone the existence of elves.\r \r Other aspects common to Otherkin belief include a sense of superiority over their fellow human beings

United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)