holocaust

noun

1. （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
2. （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

1. 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.
   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。
2. 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.
   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

1. Chandler: All right, there's a nuclear holocaust, I'm the last man on Earth.
   如果核爆炸，世界上只剩我一个男人，你会爱我吗？
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. In that film, decades after a devastating nuclear holocaust, a small band of women roams the landscape looking for food and kicks.
   在影片中，摧毁一切的核灾难已经过去十几年了，一小群女人在山野漫游，寻找食物和刺激。
5. And how would it end in the global Holocaust of science fiction or in a limited exchange of weapons that leaves population centers largely intact?
   又怎么结束呢？其后果是像科幻小说描述的全球浩劫，还是仅限于核武器交锋而人口密集的中心大体上不受损失？
6. [ Above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust, he said.
   （超过这个幅度的话）很多岛屿将消失，非洲将遭受浩劫，他表示。
7. 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。
8. Even if we avoid a nuclear holocaust, the threat from the Kremlin requires us to devote a sizable fraction of our resources to our military defense.
   即使我们避免一场核破坏，来自克里姆林宫的威胁还是要求我们花费了我们相当大的资源用于我们的军事防卫。
9. 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。
10. There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination.
    那就会发生超乎想像的核屠杀。
11. 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？
12. The Earth, in giving up her Serpentine Dance with Planet X, will be making more desperate moves in her attempts to comply with the magnetic holocaust caused by the near presence of Planet X.
    地球放弃了她与行星X的“蛇形舞动”，将极力试图顺从由于行星X靠近而带来的具有巨大破坏力的磁场。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. The LORD'S fire came down and consumed the holocaust, wood, stones, and dust, and it lapped up the water in the trench.
    于是上主的火降下，焚尽了全燔祭、柴木、石头和尘土，也烧干了沟中的水。
16. Since Israel has memories of a real Holocaust, it may not set much store by that probably.
    既然以色列有过被浩劫的历史，那么它就不会重视那种可能性。
17. 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。
18. And anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented holocaust.
    欧洲的反犹太主义最终发展成一场史无前例的浩劫。
19. Doing business with the Nazis during the holocaust.
    和纳粹党做生意发大财。
20. Moreover, failure to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction increases the chance for nuclear holocaust.
    此外，制止大规模杀伤性武器扩散的失败增加了核毁灭的可能性。
21. He claimed that the world was about to be consumed in a nuclear holocaust.
    他声称世界将在一场核灾难中毁灭。
22. 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。
23. Or we're looking at a nuclear holocaust.
    否则我们将面临一场核灾难。
24. He predicted that there would be a world holocaust.
    他预言将有一场世界性的浩劫。
25. Such regions as the Sahara and Gobi deserts are the result of millions of humans, plants, animals and minerals shattered in the instant of a nuclear holocaust.
    这些地区比如撒哈拉大沙漠（Sahara）和戈壁滩大沙漠（Gobideserts），是数百万人类、植物、动物和矿石在一次性核毁灭中瞬间粉碎的结果。
26. That the war criminals should be punished is a logical conclusion from the "holocaust".
    战犯的应当惩办，是浩劫的逻辑的结论。
27. Wafa Sultan: The Jews have come from the tragedy ( of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling.
    但是人们尊敬他们是因为他们和知识，而不是他们的恐怖。是勤劳，不是哭泣和喊叫。
28. When Arendt wrote, humanity was still reeling from the first total war in history, from the revelations of the Holocaust, the pitiful starvation of inmates at Belsen, the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    阿伦特写作的时期，人类仍没有从有史以来第一次全球战争、种族大灭绝的启示、贝尔森集中营饥饿致死的难友所激起的同情、广岛和长崎***爆炸的后果中恢复过来。
29. Fidel Castro was critical of you for denying the Holocaust.
    卡斯特罗对你否认犹太大持批评立场。

noun

1. an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
   1. a nuclear holocaust