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 conflagration [`kɑnflə'greʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 大火灾, 大火, 冲突

[化] 暴燃; 快速燃烧

[医] 焚烧


  1. The fire brigade soon got the conflagration under control.
    消防队很快就把火控制住了。
  2. Behind the gray walls there are human sparks, and yet never a conflagration.
    灰色的大墙后面仍有人性的火花,只是永远也不会燃成大火了。
  3. Fireman: Never has a spark been allowed to exist to develop into a conflagration.
    消防队员:我们不让星星之火变成一场火灾。


conflagration
[ noun ]
a very intense and uncontrolled fire
<noun.event>


Conflagration \Con`fla*gra"tion\, n. [L. conflagratio: cf. F.
conflagration.]
A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a
general burning.

Till one wide conflagration swallows all. --Pope.

  1. Dwindling U.S. stockpiles, looming cold weather and a British warning of a Persian Gulf conflagration combined to drive oil prices back over $40 a barrel Thursday to a new record close in hectic futures trading.
  2. It remains the case that the west has no solution to this Balkan conflagration. The easy part is to define a moral position.
  3. What we got was a conflagration.
  4. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who faces an international army opposed to his Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, could drag Israel into the conflagration, exposing Jordan.
  5. His invasion and annexation of Kuwait Aug. 2 set up a high-risk confrontation with the United States that could well ignite the Middle East in another conflagration if his current crusade against Israel gains momentum.
  6. But, then, this incident, horrible as it is, isn't going to spark some sudden conflagration.
  7. The 11,000-acre conflagration 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles burned to within three miles of the historic Mount Palomar Observatory, the nation's largest optical telescope, before shifting away, authorities said Friday.
  8. "The gulf crisis presents an unprecedented threat of conflagration of a war with catastrophic consequences," said the group, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
  9. The cause of the conflagration was never determined because the 2,000-degree fire destroyed clues, but investigators eliminated arson as a possibility.
  10. The Iranian also sounded strangely like the U.S. firefighters when they got their first view of Saddam Hussein's conflagration.
  11. Bush acknowledged public backing would probably erode in the event of a "drawn-out conflagration" but added: "This will not be, in my view, that kind of confrontation." The Baghdad government, too, gave every indication it was girding for war.
  12. In the months following the Watts riots in 1965, civic groups and government leaders looked for ways to prevent a similar conflagration from happening again.
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