hell

英 [hel] 美[hɛl]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词infernal pandemonium Hades limbo netherworld inferno underworld perdition abyss

反义词

n. 地狱；究竟（作加强语气词）；训斥；黑暗势力
vi. 过放荡生活；飞驰
int. 该死；见鬼（表示惊奇、烦恼、厌恶、恼怒、失望等）
n. (Hell)人名；(柬)海；(西)埃利；(德、匈、捷、罗、芬、瑞典)黑尔

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中文词源

hell 地狱

来自PIE*kel,隐藏，遮盖，词源同hole,cellar.引申词义地下，地狱。

Hell ’s Anger 地狱天使

比喻用法，用来形容穿皮衣，骑大马力摩托车横穿直撞的人。

词态变化

复数: hells;

英文词源

hell: hell: [OE] Etymologically, hell is a ‘hidden place’. It goes back ultimately to Indo-European *kel- ‘cover, hide’, which was contributed an extraordinary number of words to English, including apocalypse, cell, cellar, conceal, helmet, hull ‘pod’, occult, and possibly colour and holster. Its Germanic descendant was *khel-, *khal-, whose derivatives included *khallō and *khaljō.

The first became modern English hall, the second modern English hell – so both hall and hell were originally ‘concealed or covered places’, although in very different ways: the hall with a roof, hell with at least six feet of earth. Related Germanic forms include German hölle, Dutch hel, and Swedish helvete (in which vete means ‘punishment’).
=> apocalypse, cell, conceal, hall, helmet, hull, occult
hell (n.): Old English hel, helle, "nether world, abode of the dead, infernal regions," from Proto-Germanic *haljo "the underworld" (cognates: f. Old Frisian helle, Dutch hel, Old Norse hel, German Hölle, Gothic halja "hell") "the underworld," literally "concealed place" (compare Old Norse hellir "cave, cavern"), from PIE *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell).

The English word may be in part from Old Norse Hel (from Proto-Germanic *halija "one who covers up or hides something"), in Norse mythology the name of Loki's daughter, who rules over the evil dead in Niflheim, the lowest of all worlds (nifl "mist"). Transfer of a pagan concept and word to a Christian idiom. In Middle English, also of the Limbus Patrum, place where the Patriarchs, Prophets, etc. awaited the Atonement. Used in the KJV for Old Testament Hebrew Sheol and New Testament Greek Hades, Gehenna. Used figuratively for "state of misery, any bad experience" since at least late 14c. As an expression of disgust, etc., first recorded 1670s.

Expression Hell in a handbasket is attested by 1867, in a context implying use from a few years before, and the notion of going to Heaven in a handbasket is from 1853, with a sense of "easy passage" to the destination. Hell or high water (1874) apparently is a variation of between the devil and the deep blue sea. To wish someone would go to hell is in Shakespeare ("Merchant of Venice"). Snowball's chance in hell "no chance" is from 1931; till hell freezes over "never" is from 1832. To ride hell for leather is from 1889, originally with reference to riding on horseback. Hell on wheels is said to be from 1843 in DAS; popularity dates from 1869 in reference to the temporary workers' towns along the U.S. transcontinental railroad and their vices.

双语例句

1. Whatever the outcome, it's going to be one hell of a fight.: 不管结果如何，这都会是场艰苦的战斗。

2. The men might be armed, but they sure as hell weren'ttrained.: 这些人可能携有武器，但他们很显然没有受过训练。

3. The children give her hell, particularly the older boys.: 这些孩子让她吃足了苦头，特别是那些年龄大一点的男孩子。

4. Wretched woman, he thought, why the hell can't she wait?: 他想，可恶的女人，她怎么就不能等一等呢？

5. My back's giving me hell, let me tell you!: 告诉你吧，我的背可让我受够罪了！

英英释意

1. any place of pain and turmoil;: "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering;: "war is hell"; "go to blazes"

3. violent and excited activity;: "they began to fight like sin"

4. noisy and unrestrained mischief;: "raising blazes"

考试真题

The road to climate hell is paved with our good intentions.

实用场景例句

Those cops beat the hell out of me.: 那些警察把我打得半死。

I patted the top of her head in the condescending way I knew irritated the hell out of her...: 我故意俯就地拍了拍她的头顶，知道这会让她非常恼火。

I got the hell out of Glasgow and I can honestly say I will never go back.: 我飞快地逃离了格拉斯哥，而且老实说我再也不会回去了。

Get the hell out of my way...: 滚开，别挡着我。

Whatever the outcome, it's going to be one hell of a fight.: 不管结果如何，这都会是场艰苦的战斗。

The manager took a hell of a lot of money out of the club.: 主教练从俱乐部拿到了很多钱。

He had an affair, I found out and then all hell broke loose.: 他有了婚外恋，我发现了，一切顿时天翻地覆。

School is a living hell for some children.: 对于有些孩子来说，学校简直就是活地狱。

I missed her like hell.: 我想她想得要命。

It hurts like hell...: 疼死了。

'I'll go myself.' — 'Like hell you will!': “我会自己去。”——“绝对不可以！”

They've been going hell for leather, trying to record as much as they can.: 他们动作飞快，想尽量多录一点。

The first horse often goes hell for leather, hits a few fences but gets away with it...: 第一匹马往往跑得很快，会碰到几根横杆，但不会碰落。

I'm going to do as I please and let 'em all go to hell.: 我想怎么干就怎么干，让他们全都见鬼去吧。

Peter can go to hell. It's my money and I'll leave it to who I want...: 让彼得见鬼去吧。这是我的钱，我想留给谁就留给谁。

'Well, you can go to hell!' He swept out of the room.: “嘿，你给我有多远滚多远！”他昂首阔步走出了房间。

The children give her hell, particularly the older boys.: 这些孩子让她吃足了苦头，特别是那些年龄大一点的男孩子。

My back's giving me hell, let me tell you!...: 告诉你吧，我的背可让我受够罪了！

My father saw this in the newspaper and he gave me absolute hell.: 我父亲在报纸上看到这个消息后把我骂了个狗血淋头。

She is the bitch from hell.: 她是个坏得冒水的泼妇。

He's a child from hell...: 他是个坏透了的小孩。

He says he'll sit there until hell freezes over before he'll pay them one cent.: 他说他宁可永远坐在那里，也不会付给他们一分钱。

It was stupid, just vandalism for the hell of it.: 只是为了好玩而破坏公物是很愚蠢的行为。

Managers seem to be spending millions just for the hell of it.: 经理们似乎只为了寻个乐子就动辄花上几百万。

She believed she would die in the snake-infested sand dunes. She said: 'It was hell on earth'.: 她觉得自己会死在遍地毒蛇的沙丘中。她说：“这简直是人间地狱。”

I am angry as hell.: 我气坏了。

The men might be armed, but they sure as hell weren't trained...: 这些人可能携有武器，但他们很显然没有受过训练。

'Hell, no!' the doctor snapped.: “绝对不行！”医生厉声道。

Bullies can make your life hell.: 恃强欺弱者能让你的日子像活地狱。

...the hell of the Siberian labor camps...: 地狱般的西伯利亚劳改营

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