Conflagration

(noun.) a very intense and uncontrolled fire.

校对:马奇

• The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The woods were set on fire by the bursting shells, and the conflagration raged. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Cold news, said Waldemar, to us, though you speak of fire and conflagration. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Our only hope is to quench this conflagration and trust to fate that a year will find your Princess alive and well. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• She made a great point of being so near the river, in case of a conflagration; and I suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

整理:尼古拉斯