infernal
infernal 英 [ɪnˈfɜ:nl] 美 [ɪnˈfɜrnl]
adj. 地狱的;恶魔的;可憎的
名词复数:infernals
- Things that come from Hell, or seem like they do, are infernal. If your father tells you to stop listening to that infernal music, he thinks your tunes are hellish on the ears.
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- adj. 地狱的;恶魔的;可憎的
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1. Satan has reigned too long in this infernal realm.
撒旦在这个地狱里统治了太长时间。
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2. At the very centre of the infernal kingdom is Satan, to whose presence only the more distinguished among the damned are admitted.
处在地狱王国中心的是撒旦,只有地狱里那些比较出名的家伙才被准许觐见他。
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3. In the autobiography itself, Twain mixes news and history, using something from the "infernal newspapers" as a jumping-off point for his dictation.
在他的自传中,吐温混杂了新闻,历史,使用标为来自“地狱的报纸”作为口述中的跳转点。
- infernal (adj.) late 14c., "of or pertaining to the underworld," (ancient Tartarus, the sunless abode of the dead, or the Christian Hell), from Old French enfernal, infernal "of Hell, hellish" (12c.), from Late Latin infernalis "of or belonging to the lower regions," from infernus "hell" (Ambrose), in classical Latin "the lower (world)," noun use of infernus "lower, lying beneath, underground, of the lower regions," from infra "below" (see infra-).
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