hell — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ riêng

1. A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

   Cách dùng

   • capitalized
   • often
   • in many religions

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   afterlife

   Từ trái nghĩa

   heaven

   Ví dụ

   May you rot in hell!

   Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

   Thêm ví dụ (4)

   Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

   Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

   'Cause this is a wasteland, my only retreat / With heaven above you, there's hell over me

Danh từ

1. A place or situation of great suffering in life.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • excessive
   • nghĩa bóng

   Ví dụ

   My new boss is making my job a hell.

   I went through hell to get home today.

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   callback hell; hell; hell

   1879, General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

   Why, am I dying? / Kill, have no fear / Lie, live off lying / Hell, hell is here

   So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.

2. A place for gambling.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được

   Ví dụ

   Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now.

   a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   There's light behind here—a hole through the wall. I believe the place is a regular swindling hell.

   But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; […]

3. An extremely hot place.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • nghĩa bóng
   • không đếm được

   Ví dụ

   You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.

   when hell freezes over

4. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • mildly
   • không đếm được
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

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   She's got her arms down to her side, defiant. But just for the hell of it, she leans into him, wraps her arms around his neck, puts her head on his shoulder, and hangs on tight.

   I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

   What the hell is wrong with you?!

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   He says he’s going home early? Like hell he is.

5. A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không còn dùng
   • không đếm được

   Ví dụ

   This sturdy Squire, he had, as well As the bold Trojan Knight, seen Hell.

6. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

7. Something extremely painful or harmful (to)

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được
   • usually
   • with-on

   Ví dụ

   That steep staircase is hell on my knees.

Thán từ

1. Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.

   O hell! what have we here? A carrion Death, within whose empty eye There is a written scroll! […]

2. Used to emphasize.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • idiomatic
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   Hell yeah!

3. Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!

Trạng từ

1. Very; used to emphasize strongly.

   Cách dùng

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand
   • khẩu ngữ
   • not-comparable
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   hella

   Ví dụ

   That was hell good!

   They're hell sexy.

Động từ

1. To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

2. To hurry, rush.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   I had already lost thirteen points, all because she had to come helling in there at twelve, worrying me about that letter.

3. To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • nội động từ
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   He was helling down the road with his radio blaring.

Động từ

1. To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • hiếm
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster.

Động từ

1. To pour.

   Cách dùng

   • khẩu ngữ
   • hiếm
   • sometimes
   • thô tục

   Ví dụ

   18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.

Danh từ

1. any place of pain and turmoil

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   hell on earthhellholesnake pitthe pitsinferno

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   regionpart

   Ví dụ

   the hell of battle

   the inferno of the engine room

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   when you're alone Christmas is the pits

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   blaze

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   trouble

   Ví dụ

   war is hell

   go to blazes

3. noisy and unrestrained mischief

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   blaze

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   mischiefmischief-makingmischievousnessdeviltrydevilrydevilmentrascalityrogueryroguishnessshenanigan

   Ví dụ

   raising blazes