conflagration 大火、大火事

conflagration はもっといい例があったのですが、リンクが無効にされていて残念です。 13:23 in centuries past, typical dwellings were made of wood and used a lot of paper. as a result, fire spread rapidly. the city suffered countless devastating conflagrations. 昔の家は木と紙で出来ていたので火のまわりは早かった。江戸が何度と無く大火に見舞われたのはこのためだ。

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvVKTxTCAA  0:32 and there have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of strident rhetoric have only led to very ominous situations in the history of humanity. that's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in, they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time after an economic crisis. and I think what they put forward ended up at what we know today from history, in global conflagration. 要約；ヒトラーやムッソリーニも不況下の世の不安に乗じて勢力を拡大し、その結果はご存知の通り、世界の大惨事を招いてしまった。（だから、ペテン師のトランプの言うことに耳を傾けてはいけない）
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a-4494 conflagration