conflagration
n. 大火(災)
A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
1. a very intense and uncontrolled fire
As the Middle East erupts, there are plenty of scenarios for global conflagration.
隨著中東硝煙四起, 能引起全球大戰的種種情況數不勝數.
Credit default swaps are the rocket fuel that turned the subprime mortgage fire into a conflagration.
信用違約互換(CDS)是一種火箭燃料,它把次貸之火變成了一場滔天大火.
A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes.
1947年的一場大火,使90%的房屋化為灰燼.
The light of that conflagration will fade away.
這熊熊烈火會漸漸熄滅.
Competitors quickly tried to douse another conflagration of iPhone hype.
很快競爭者就試圖加入到另一輪iPhone的廣告戰.