holocaust的意思|holocaust的解释-里氏词典

holocaust ['hɑlə`kɔst]

n. 大屠杀, 大火灾, 毁灭, 大规模烧杀

holocaust

[ noun ]

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

<noun.act>

a nuclear holocaust

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

<noun.act>

Holocaust \Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?,
?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to
burn (cf. {Caustic}): cf. F. holocauste.]
1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was
consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
--Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a
theater or a ship.

Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the
Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and
German-occupied lands; usually referred to as {The
Holocaust}. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by
the word {Shoah}.
[PJC]

"If Jim and Tammy can survive their holocaust of the last two years, then you can make it," said Bakker, who left PTL in March 1987 amid a sex-and-money scandal.
"An elephant holocaust across Africa is likely unless consumer countries take immediate action," the World Wildlife Fund said.
Do you know that right wingers like Reed Irvine accused Donald of "sabotaging" the original concept, because "Amerika" shows you all taking us over without nuclear holocaust, massive subversion or a Stalinist bloodbath?
Le Chateau du feu ('The castle of fire') was written later, after the holocaust, for a big manifestation in honour of the French Resistance.
"You can make it," he said. "If Jim and Tammy can survive their holocaust of two years, I know God will help you to survive. There's times when I did not want to live.
But the church says its concern over nuclear holocaust took second place to pollution when it discovered last week that three tanks were leaking.
"The holocaust was bad enough," he said, referring to a Turkish campaign to wipe out Armenians that began in 1894 and reached its peak during World War I. Hundreds of thousands died, and many others fled to the United States.
The Khmer Rouge problem arises from the holocaust that it unleashed upon the Cambodians from 1975 to 1978.
He said the threats range from overpopulation and nuclear holocaust to destruction of the ozone shield and human epidemics such as aids.
The identity card brought the unimaginable - 11m dead - down to a personal level. I had not been impressed with the idea of a holocaust museum in America.
"When a pure and enlightened movement like Zionism is equated with rascism, (the holocaust) could happen again," he said.
His endorsement of the Japanese-American payments, for instance, was meant to send a message of sensitivity not only to Asian-Americans but to traditionally Democratic ethnic groups, including Jews, whose holocaust memories remain fresh.
Intellectuals were prominent at all stages in the events leading up to the Nazi holocaust.
The holocaust of Hitler was only the latest of many.
Twenty-six years after the world teetered on the brink of a nuclear holocaust, the Soviets, Cubans and Americans who guided their nations through the Cuban missile crisis still disagree who was to blame.

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