英:[ˈhelhəʊl]
美:[ˈhelhoʊl]
英:[ˈhelhəʊl]
美:[ˈhelhoʊl]
复数:hellholes
Noun
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";
The first known use of hellhole was in 1850
1 His South was a hellhole for African Americans, a place where people were routinely dragged from their homes and lynched.
2 She survived that hellhole, eventually escaped and found her way into American hands.
她在那儿坚强的存活了下来,最终成功逃脱,并被美国盟军发现。
3 Cameras, sound and light all play an increasingly forceful role as the state exerts control, and as Winston finds himself in the torturous hellhole that is Room 101.
4 The narrator is a narcissistic borderline sociopath, and the novel’s fictional Honolulu is a smelly hellhole full of ooga-booga natives right out of a 1930s cartoon.
5 And in that notorious hellhole, Daniels — who was never convicted of anything — rotted away year after year.
6 For one thing, New York run amok is the template for the current hysteria, a kind of wish in some quarters, that posits America’s cities as unspeakable hellholes.
7 “Do those hijas de la gran puta know you have children in this Godforsaken hellhole? Do they know your children go barefoot and hungry while you spend the misery you earn on them?”
8 Right now, getting her out of this hellhole was most imperative.
现在,她最急切的事,就是离开这个地狱。
9 “It’s always boggled my mind,” he said, “when people see the buildings of Manhattan in the distance as a daunting promised land or hellhole.”
10 And if you think all indoor destinations for young people are sticky, smelly, depressing hellholes, check your assumptions at the unmarked front door.
11 My mother's ex-partner got dry at a treatment centre she still describes as a hellhole, and came back into our lives sober.
12 “Far be it from me to even approach untangling that hellhole of a mind,” he said, carefully.
13 Still stuck in this hellhole, with God only knew how many more bombs ready to go off at any minute.
14 Jonathan Moore sets his new thriller in the near future, when San Francisco has become a hellhole of rampant street crime and consumerism run amok.
15 But teach me it did, and after doing time in that hellhole I can say for certain that it’s all too possible for a man to wind up “below the law.”
16 A tale of lust, violence and desperation in a hellhole of a Welsh town on a Saturday night, the play was striking largely because of the nastiness of its protagonist, Gary, a former school bully.
17 In 2016, the right wing has elected as its party nominee for president a vaudevillian freakshow who routinely bashes and brands America as a “Third World country,” “nightmare,” “embarrassment,” and “hellhole.”
18 Blackbeard rules over a dusty hellhole swarming with enslaved children, the kind of place we’ve seen a hundred times before.
19 About 15 minutes into his speech Thursday evening, Donald Trump riffed on one of his favorite topics: American “inner cities” and how they are utter hellholes.
20 In the scene where Mickey tries therapy, we love it when Mickey tells his rhino shrink, "I grew up behind the walls of a one-room hellhole in the ghetto."
在米奇尝试各种疗法的场景中,我们喜欢米奇抱怨他自己钱财短缺:“我从小就住在贫民区,那是一个脏兮兮的地方,只有一间房间。”