2literary when someone has very strong feelings that are difficult to control 强烈的感情
She was desperately trying to calm the inferno raging within her.
她拼命想平息胸中的怒火。
Examples from the Corpus
inferno• High winds quickly turned the fire into a deadlyinferno.• Eleven homes and several businesses were destroyed in the inferno.• He rushed back into the inferno to rescue his two-year-old sister, Cora, who had been trappedinside.
raging/blazing inferno• He had a seriousexpression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno.• Verily, the Academy is a raging inferno of inertia and glazed expressions.• What they saw was a blazing inferno.
Origininferno
(1800-1900)Italian“hell”, from Late Latininfernus; → INFERNAL