hell

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n. 地狱, 邪恶势力, 苦境, 阴间, 毁坏, 训斥 vi. 狂饮, 飞驰

发音

US /hɛl/
UK /hɛl/

词形变化

hells 复数 hells hells 三单 helling 现在分词 helled 过去式 helled 过去分词

别名

hel helle Hell

教材释义与例句

名词

地狱；究竟（作加强语气词）；训斥；黑暗势力

感叹词

该死；见鬼（表示惊奇、烦恼、厌恶、恼怒、失望等）

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A place or situation of great suffering in life.

    地狱

    可数 比喻 不可数

    My new boss is making my job a hell.

    I went through hell to get home today.

    callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell

  2. 2.

    A place for gambling.

    可数 不可数

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados There's light behind here—a hole through the wall. I believe the place is a regular swindling hell.

  3. 3.

    An extremely hot place.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

    when hell freezes over

  4. 4.

    Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

    可数 不可数 粗俗

    I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

    What the hell is wrong with you?!

    He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

  5. 5.

    A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  6. 6.

    In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

    非正式 可数 不可数

    That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

    非正式 粗俗
  2. 2.

    To hurry, rush.

    非正式 粗俗
  3. 3.

    To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

    非正式 不及物 粗俗

    He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

  4. 1.

    To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

    非正式 罕用 粗俗
  5. 1.

    To pour.

    非正式 罕用 粗俗

    18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Alternative form of the hell or like hell.

    非正式 粗俗

    - Oh, aren't they sweet?

  2. 2.

    Very; used to emphasize strongly.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 非正式 粗俗

    That was hell good!

    They're hell sexy.

name
  1. 1.

    A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

    地狱

    不可数

    May you rot in hell!

interj.
  1. 1.

    Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

    非正式 粗俗

    Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

  2. 2.

    Used to emphasize.

    非正式 习语 粗俗

    Hell yeah!

  3. 3.

    Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

    非正式 粗俗

    Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

pit underworld blaze hades inferno hellhole netherworld perdition hell on earth nether region

反义词 1

heaven

上位词 10

part trouble region mischief mischievousness devilment devilry deviltry mischiefmaking rascality

下位词 2

hellfire gehenna

相关短语

to hell with 让...见鬼去吧 what the hell 到底；这到底是怎么回事；究竟 as hell 极端地,可怕地 like hell 拼命地 hell on wheels hell west and crooked hell no hell on earth 人间地狱; 活地狱 Hell no hell and half of Georgia hell for leather hell or high water hell hound hell hounds

词源

From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.

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