the firestorm that leveled Hiroshima after the atomic blast.

原子弹爆炸后，把广岛夷为平地的风暴性大火

Firestorm is also another “storm” word that can used when talking about the weather and real life. An actual firestorm is a strong, damaging fire that often has tornado-like columns of fire.

Firestorm是另一种风暴，当我们谈到天气和现实生活时会用到它。真实层面上的firestorm（风暴性大火）是指一场猛烈的破坏性火灾，它通常会产生像龙卷风一样的火柱。

According to Gizmodo, the accidental revelation of the contract within Google set off a firestorm among some employees.

据“Gizmodo”报道，该合同在谷歌内部的意外披露引发了一些员工的强烈不满。

In conversation, a “firestorm ” is a violent outburst or disagreement that causes damage. For example, the movie star created a firestorm when she made comments about the political situation in her home country.

在对话中，firestorm是指一场造成伤害的激烈争论。例如，这位电影明星对本国政治形势发表评论时引发了一场激烈的争论。

But last week the Obama administration timidly ducked that task, fearing a political firestorm .

但是，由于唯恐引起政治风暴，奥巴马政府胆怯地绕开了这项任务。

But instead, the company found itself facing a firestorm of angry users and awash in criticism from privacy advocates and bloggers.

但是取而代之的，公司发现它本身正在面对一群火爆脾气的愤怒的用户，和来自于隐私拥护者和博客充斥着的批评。

While thousands fled, two people who tried to ride out the firestorm in a backyard hot tub were burned.

尽管数千人已经撤离，但有2个试图靠躲进自家的热水澡桶来躲避大火的夫妻被烧伤。

Any effort by the ECB to be the lender of last resort that members need will start a firestorm of protest.

欧洲央行试图成为成员国所需要的最后贷款人的任何努力，都将引发激烈反对。

Now is the time for an effort to prevent a firestorm .

如今是该采取措施、避免火灾的时候了。

We must grasp it or prepare for the firestorm that will follow our allowing it to slip through our fingers.

我们必须抓住这个契机，如果我们任由机会从指缝中溜走，等待我们的必然会是一场暴风雨。

Our efforts generated a firestorm of opposition from fundamentalists, who favored a just say no policy.

我们对此计划的实施招致了原教旨主义者的强烈反对，他们主张采取“对性说不”的政策。

The kinds of approximations needed to, for example, simulate a firestorm , were in the past computationally intractable.

要利用这种近似解来模拟大爆炸在以前是不可能实现的。

Perhaps that’s why I’m not outraged by what is perhaps the first book of 2011 to unleash a firestorm of condemnation.

也许正因此，我才未对这本可能是2011年的第一本书表示愤怒，并对其发出强烈的谴责。

Crude oil leaked into the Yellow Sea, then burned in a huge firestorm for 15 hours.

一条原油管线爆炸，原油泄漏流进黄海，巨大的火球风暴燃烧了15个小时。

“The firestorm of 2006 was not PCCW’s finest hour, but something good came of it, ” said one person close to the company.

一位知情人士称：“2006年的大爆发不是电讯盈科最好的时光，但带来了一些良性结果。”

A Chinese race-car-driver-turned-politico has unleashed a firestorm on the Web with a volley of edgy blogs over the weekend.

一位中国的赛车手化身政客，在这一周内接连发表一系列言辞犀利的博文，引发一场网络风暴。

Derivatives and securitisation, which have been at the heart of the firestorm in finance, have also been hugely beneficial.

一直处于金融危机中心的衍生品和证券化，也是非常有益的创新。

There is a debate to be had about the extent to which the currency policies of China and others provided the fuel for the credit firestorm .

有一个争论是关于中国和其他国家的货币政策对当下的次贷风暴火上加油的程度。

The last round, completed in June, provoked a political firestorm .

于6月结束的最后一轮“量化宽松”激起了政治风暴。

Three officials are fired amid a firestorm of criticism of the nation’s high-speed rail system.

在全国上下对高铁系统的猛烈批评声中，三名官员被撤职。

There’s a new firestorm brewing in web services architectures.

在网络服务架构领域中酝酿着一股新的潮流。

The credit crunch and the financial firestorm have also provided a neat metaphor for the big shift in economic power in the world.

这场信贷危机和金融风暴也是全球经济实力重大转变的形象比喻。

a central bank that tried to stop subprime lending in 2003 would have faced a political firestorm .

这里是虚拟语态-假如某央行在2003年试图停止次贷那么他会面临政治弹劾。

This article has created a firestorm of comments and blogs and created tremendous controversy.

这篇文章引起了火爆的评论和博客，制造了巨大的争议。

The move set off a media firestorm , particularly in the blogosphere.

这一行动引起媒体热议，尤其是在博客圈。

There is no known single cause for autism, and the debate over potential causes has ignited a media firestorm .

自闭症的原因尚无定论，关于其潜在原因也在媒体中激烈争论过。