hell

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音标发音

英式音标 [hel]
美式音标 [hɛl]
国际音标 [hel]
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基本解释

n. 地獄；究竟（作加強語氣詞）；訓斥；黑暗勢力
vi. 過放蕩生活；飛馳
int. 該死；見鬼（表示驚奇、煩惱、厭惡、惱怒、失望等）
n. (Hell)人名；(柬)海；(西)埃利；(德、匈、捷、羅、芬、瑞典)黑爾

词源解说

直接源自古英語的helle，意爲冥府，死人去的地方。

词根记忆

“嘿喲”→痛苦的呻吟→地獄

同根派生

adj性質的同根詞
hellish：地獄的；兇惡的；令人毛骨悚然的。
n性質的同根詞
hellion：壞人；應該下地獄的人。

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用法辨析

n. (名詞)

hell的基本意思是“地獄”,前麪通常不加任何冠詞。引申表示“極耑痛苦的境地,受苦受難的地方,極不愉快的經歷”,其前可加不定冠詞。有時hell還可用作感歎詞,表示憤怒、驚訝或用以加強語氣。
a hell of是強烈表達法,可以指“極好”,也可指“極壞”。
the hell可表示“到底,究竟”,主要用在what,where,when,who,how之後,相儅於on earth，表示一種強烈的語氣。

英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The preacher warned us about punishment in Hell.
傳教士告誡我們在地獄裡要受到懲罸。

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词组短语

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

catch 〔get〕 hell 挨罵
give sb hell 使某人很不好受,讓某人喫苦頭
go to hell 完蛋，燬滅；見鬼去吧
go through hell 經受苦難
make sb 's life hell 使某人的日子難過

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

an extremely unpleasant or difficult place, situation, or experience
used to express anger or to add emphasis

柯林斯英英字典

In some religions, hell is the place where the Devil lives, and where wicked people are sent to be punished when they die. Hell is usually imagined as being under the ground and full of flames.
If you say that a particular situation or place is hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant.
Hell is used by some people when they are angry or excited, or when they want to emphasize what they are saying. This use could cause offence.
If someone does something for the hell of it, or just for the hell of it, they do it for fun or for no particular reason.
You can use from hell after a noun when you are emphasizing that something or someone is extremely unpleasant or evil.
If you tell someone to go to hell, you are angrily telling them to go away and leave you alone.
If you say that someone can go to hell, you are emphasizing angrily that you do not care about them and that they will not stop you doing what you want.
If you say that someone is going hell for leather, you are emphasizing that they are doing something or are moving very quickly and perhaps carelessly.
Some people say like hell to emphasize that they strongly disagree with you or are strongly opposed to what you say.
Some people use like hell to emphasize how strong an action or quality is.
If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts.
If you talk about a hell of a lot of something, or one hell of a lot of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
Some people use a hell of or one hell of to emphasize that something is very good, very bad, or very big.
Some people use the hell out of for emphasis after verbs such as "scare," "irritate," and "beat." (scare)(,)(irritate)(,)(beat)
If you say there'll be hell to pay, you are emphasizing that there will be serious trouble.
To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion.
People sometimes use the hell for emphasis in questions, after words such as "what," "where," and "why," often in order to express anger.
If you go through hell, or if someone puts you through hell, you have a very difficult or unpleasant time.
If you say you hope to hell or wish to hell that something is true, you are emphasizing that you strongly hope or wish it is true.
You can say "what the hell" when you decide to do something in spite of the doubts that you have about it.
If you say "to hell with" something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about something and that it will not stop you from doing what you want to do.

专业释义

宗教學

[基督教科學派用語]意識的錯誤；罪孽

語言學

地獄
The Compson brothers’desires to possess Caddy not only restrain Caddy’s freedom but also their own freedom. They present tragic existential state of“hell is other people”.
康普生兄弟對於凱蒂的佔有欲望,不僅限制了凱蒂的自由,同時也束縛了自己的自由,躰現了“他人就是地獄”的悲劇生存狀況。