firestorm
英 ['faɪəstɔːm]
美['faɪɚstɔrm]
- n. 风暴性大火,大爆发
英英释义
- 1. a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area
- 2. an outburst of controversy;
- "the incident triggered a political firestorm"
实用场景例句
- The speech has resulted in a firestorm of controversy.
- 这一讲话已引发了激烈的争议。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The book set off a firestorm of reaction.
- 这本书引起风暴般的反应.
期刊摘选
- Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5 %.
- 地狱火火炬火焰风暴触发机率已经减少到5%.
期刊摘选
- You may touch off a firestorm quite innocently, so be careful then.
- 你有可能无辜地触发一场风暴火, 所以千万要注意了.
期刊摘选
- But last week the Obama administration timidly ducked that task, fearing a political firestorm.
- 但是, 由于唯恐引起政治风暴,奥巴马政府胆怯地绕开了这项任务.
期刊摘选
- But contraception, induced abortion, sterilization technologies touch off a firestorm of debate about ethics.
- 然而,避孕 、 人工流产 、 绝育技术的施行却引发了激烈的伦理道德问题论争.
期刊摘选
- When Ware showed up at school on Monday morning, he arrived to a firestorm.
- 星期一早晨,当威尔出现在学校时, 他卷入了一场大爆发中.
期刊摘选
- Is the firestorm over open source likely to abate?
- 希望在未来的5年开源将会怎么样?
期刊摘选
- The ruling provoked a firestorm.
- 这一裁决激起了强烈反响.
期刊摘选
- No sooner had we arrived than a firestorm broke out in Arkansas involving the football team.
- 我们刚到那里,阿肯色州的球队就爆发了与球员有关一场轩然大波.
期刊摘选
- The kinds of approximations needed to, for example , simulate a firestorm, were in the past intractable.
- 要利用这种近似解来模拟大爆炸在以前是不可能实现的.
期刊摘选
- Yun Mei's request has set a firestorm of controversy.
- 恽美的要求,已成立了国家安全局在争议.
期刊摘选
- The speech has resulted in a firestorm of controversy.
- 这一讲话已引发了激烈的争议。
柯林斯例句
双语例句
- 1. The speech has resulted in a firestorm of controversy.
- 这一讲话已引发了激烈的争议。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5 %.
- 地狱火火炬火焰风暴触发机率已经减少到5%.
来自互联网
- 3. You may touch off a firestorm quite innocently, so be careful then.
- 你有可能无辜地触发一场风暴火, 所以千万要注意了.
来自互联网
- 4. Is the firestorm over open source likely to abate?
- 希望在未来的5年开源将会怎么样?
来自互联网
- 5. Yun Mei's request has set a firestorm of controversy.
- 恽美的要求,已成立了国家安全局在争议.
来自互联网
英文词源
- firestorm (n.)
- also fire-storm, 1580s, in poetry, from fire (n.) + storm (n.). From 1945 in reality, in reference to nuclear war.
词态变化
复数: firestorms;