Demon
['diːmən] or ['dimən]
解释:
(noun.) someone extremely diligent or skillful; 'he worked like a demon to finish the job on time'; 'she's a demon at math'.
汉弗莱手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
(n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
(n.) An evil spirit; a devil.
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同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Spirit, genius, tutelary deity.[2]. Devil, fiend, evil spirit.
编辑:凯利
解释:
n. an evil spirit a devilfem. Dē′moness.—adjs. Demō′niac Demōnī′acal pertaining to or like demons or evil spirits: influenced by demons.—ns. Demō′niac a human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit.—adv. Demonī′acally.—n. Demonī′acism state of being a demoniac.—adj. Demō′nian (Milt.).—ns. Demō′nianism Demō′niasm possession by a demon.—v.t. Dē′monise to convert into a demon: to control or possess by a demon.—ns. Dē′monism a belief in demons; Dē′monist a believer in demons; Demonoc′racy the power of demons; Demonol′atry the worship of demons; Demonol′ater one who worships such; Demonology an account of or the study of demons and their agency.—adjs. Demonolog′ic -al.—ns. Demonol′ogist a writer on demonology; Demonomā′nia a form of mania in which the subject believes himself possessed by devils; Demon′omy the dominion of demons; Dē′monry demoniacal influence.
录入:纳丁
例句:
- Jo glanced over her shoulder, and the little demon she was harboring said in her ear. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And proper little terrors they were, little fiends--that Gerald was a demon if ever there was one, a proper demon, ay, at six months old. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He says he wants the demon part of himself to be mated--physically--not the human being. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And questions, now, hinted the demon just waking up in his stomach, somebody may put questions about the schedules. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Then you find yourself a palpable body of darkness, a demon--' 'But why should I be a demon--? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Chariot and demon charioteer were gone by; the votary still lived. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Kick, and scream, and struggle like a demon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Depart, and haunt my couch no more--let me die in peace if thou be mortal--if thou be a demon, thy time is not yet come. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- While the dogs are yet barking and howling--there is one dog howling like a demon--the church-clocks, as if they were startled too, begin to strike. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- He was aware of this, and filled with demon-satisfaction that his motion held good for two. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He was tractable enough, though his son was a perfect demon, ready to blow out his own or anybody else's brains if he could have got to his revolver. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Whisper it not, let the demons hear and rejoice! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- This was no time for fine compunctions, nor for a chivalry that these cruel demons would neither appreciate nor reciprocate. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Then there rose suddenly above the fiendish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape-man. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- And all the while, his wife had opposed him like one of the great demons of hell. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Scarcely waiting for their craft to touch, the creatures manning them leaped among the therns with the fury of demons. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They believe in the transmigration of the soul into other men and into animals, and in demons, witchcraft and magic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I believe in the proud angels and the demons that are our fore-runners. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I was the only one that could do anything with her demons--for she wasn't going to be bothered with them herself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It was wonderful to see the fury of the contest in the girl, and the bodily struggle she made as if she were rent by the Demons of old. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In the distance behind him, lay the place where the children with pointing arms had seemed to devote him to the demons in crying out his name. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Never did I witness such a malign lust for blood as these demons of the outer air evinced in their mad battle with the therns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- There could not be fewer than five hundred people, and they were dancing like five thousand demons. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- With shrieks of rage the demons sprang for us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
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