英语词汇holocaust的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews, in Nazi concentration camps, many murdered in cyanide gas showers, their bodies desecrated and burned in bake ovens. The word has been used in the sense of a great slaughter or massacre, usually by fire, for over three centuries, one writer noting that France’s Louis XII “made a holocaust of 1,300 people in a church.” Holocaust is also used today to de- scribe a great fire, such as the firebomb raids of World War II, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A holocaust was originally a sacri- fice completely consumed by fire, a burnt offering to the pagan gods, the word deriving from the Greek holokaustos, “burnt whole.” Kaustos, “burnt,” is also the basis of the English words cauterize and caustic (used literally of caustic lime, which burns, and figuratively of caustic words that “burn” their recipients).

词汇	holocaust
词源	Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews, in Nazi concentration camps, many murdered in cyanide gas showers, their bodies desecrated and burned in bake ovens. The word has been used in the sense of a great slaughter or massacre, usually by fire, for over three centuries, one writer noting that France’s Louis XII “made a holocaust of 1,300 people in a church.” Holocaust is also used today to de- scribe a great fire, such as the firebomb raids of World War II, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A holocaust was originally a sacri- fice completely consumed by fire, a burnt offering to the pagan gods, the word deriving from the Greek holokaustos, “burnt whole.” Kaustos, “burnt,” is also the basis of the English words cauterize and caustic (used literally of caustic lime, which burns, and figuratively of caustic words that “burn” their recipients).
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