Holocaust
['hɒləkɔːst] or ['hɑləkɔst]
解释:
(noun.) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); 'a nuclear holocaust'.
(noun.) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945.
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解释:
(n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
(n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
录入:罗兰
同义词及近义词:
n. Burnt-offering (wholly consumed).
校对:蒂米
解释:
n. a burnt sacrifice in which the whole of the victim was consumed.
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