英汉词典

holocaust 基本解释

• n. 大屠杀；毁灭

holocaust 词态变化

holocaust 中文词源

holo-,整个的，整体的，-caust,燃烧，词源同caustic,cauterize.引申词义大灾难，大毁灭。

holocaust 英文词源

holocaust

holocaust: [13] Etymologically, a holocaust is a ‘complete burning’, and the word was originally used in English for a ‘burnt offering’, a ‘sacrifice completely consumed by fire’ (Mark 12, 33, ‘more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices’ in the Authorized Version, was translated by William Tindale in 1526 as ‘a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices’).

It comes via Old French and Latin from Greek holókauston, a compound formed from hólos ‘whole’ (as in English holograph [17] and holism [20], a coinage of the South African statesman Jan Smuts) and kaustós, a relative of Greek kaúein ‘burn’ (from which English gets caustic [14] and cauterize [14]). John Milton was the first English writer to use the word in the wider sense ‘complete destruction by fire’, in the late 17th century, and in the succeeding centuries several precedents were set for its modern application to ‘nuclear destruction’ and ‘mass murder’ – Bishop Ken, for instance, wrote in 1711 ‘Should general Flame this World consume … An Holocaust for Fontal Sin’, and Leitch Ritchie in Wanderings by the Loire 1833 refers to Louis VII making ‘a holocaust of thirteen hundred persons in a church’.
=> caustic, cauterize, holism

holocaust (n.)

mid-13c., "sacrifice by fire, burnt offering," from Greek holokauston "a thing wholly burnt," neuter of holokaustos "burned whole," from holos "whole" (see holo-) + kaustos, verbal adjective of kaiein "to burn." Originally a Bible word for "burnt offerings," given wider sense of "massacre, destruction of a large number of persons" from 1833. The Holocaust "Nazi genocide of European Jews in World War II," first recorded 1957, earlier known in Hebrew as Shoah "catastrophe." The word itself was used in English in reference to Hitler's Jewish policies from 1942, but not as a proper name for them.

Auschwitz makes all too clear the principle that the human psyche can create meaning out of anything. [Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors"]

holocaust 英文释义

1. an act of great destruction and loss of life

holocaust 双语例句

1. 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.

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2. 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.

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3. 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。

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4. 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。

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5. 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。

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holocaust 实用场景例句

a nuclear holocaust

核灾难

牛津词典

...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

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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。

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Holocaust : Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1942年的今天,安妮·法兰克(后来的散文家)在她十三岁生日上收到一本日记本.

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On the Holocaust, the historical record is even more complicated.

关于大屠杀这点, 历史记录甚至更错综复杂.

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Misha Defonseca acknowledged her bestselling Holocaust story as a fake after a genealogist outed her.

MishaDefonseca在当一位系谱学者揭露她之后承认自己关于二战犹太大屠杀的畅销书是捏造的.

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Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust.

还大屠杀受害者们一个公正.

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And in Iran, a leading newspaper Monday began soliciting cartoons , in English and Farsi, the Holocaust.

在伊朗, 一家著名报社星期一开始征集有关大屠杀的英文版或者波斯语版漫画.

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The history of Holocaust is being headed into oblivion.

大屠杀的历史正渐渐被人们忘却.

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All of these are you the Holocaust to win the battlefield necessities.

所有这些是你在大屠杀的战场上取胜的必需品.

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Survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the holocaust.

幸存者罪咎感在大屠杀幸存者中首次被发现.

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YES. Denial of Holocaust has been outlawed by legislation.

有. 订定法律,将[否认大屠杀]的行径视为违法事件处置.

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He predicted that there would be a world holocaust.

他预言将有一场世界性的浩劫.

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We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the holocaust.

我们必须履行他对大屠杀牺牲者的义务.

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The Holocaust, of course, is known from the outset to be a satanic plot.

当然, 纳粹大屠杀不同, 打从一开始很清楚就是撒旦式的情节.

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The Holocaust and Australia Jewish History, including related links.

大屠杀和澳洲犹太人历史, 包括串连有关的网站.

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Israelis point to him as the perpetrator of the first Holocaust.

以色列人说他是第一位施行大屠杀的恶徒.

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What were some of the failed Holocaust ( HC ) memorials?

哪些是失败的 大屠杀 纪念文物?

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He criticized and criticised the Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for not recognizing recognising the holocaust | holocaust.

同时他也批评伊朗领导人穆罕穆的,阿马蒂加不承认大屠杀.

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High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea.

掌管人类大屠杀的牧师, 从海中开火.

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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.

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The genocide of the Holocaust made many doubt tenets of European modernity.

大屠杀的种族灭绝,使很多人怀疑欧洲现代性的原则.

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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.

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Such a terrible holocaust without parallel in the history of civil wars in our country.

此一惨绝人寰之浩劫,实为我国内战史上空前所未有.

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Then those who asked if Mimi remembered the Holocaust.

然后会有些人问咪咪她是否记得大屠杀.

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Are artists and moviemakers by such logic prohibited from stories about the Holocaust?

依此逻辑,艺术家与电影人是否就禁止用纳粹大屠杀来做故事材料?

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It is unthinkable that we should 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.

辞典例句

Songhu Battle in Shanghai after fall of the Japanese army in Shanghai, there are no Holocaust?

淞沪会战中,上海失陷后,日军在上海有没有大屠杀?屠杀了多少人民和战俘?

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In later years his films began addressing such issues as The Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.

在随后几年他的电影开始处理的大屠杀, 奴役, 战争和恐怖主义等问题.

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