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demon ['di:mәn]

n. 魔鬼

That child is a little demon.
那个孩子是个小捣蛋鬼。
Her husband is a demon for work.
她丈夫工作起来精力过人。
He's very violent: it's the demon drink, you know.
他大撒酒疯，你要知道就是因为喝了那种酒。

demon

[ noun ]

an evil supernatural being

<noun.person>

a cruel wicked and inhuman person

<noun.person>

someone extremely diligent or skillful

<noun.person>

he worked like a demon to finish the job on time

she's a demon at math

Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil
spirit, fr. Gr. dai`mwn a divinity; of uncertain origin.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a
middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.

The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between
the divine and the human. --Sydenham.

2. One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the
demon of Socrates. [Often written {d[ae]mon}.]

3. An evil spirit; a devil.

That same demon that hath gulled thee thus. --Shak.

Particularly effective are Eric Riley, a sensuous demon of death, and Kecia Lewis-Evans, as a big-voiced Earth Mother.
When a foul-breathed demon appears, audience members scratch a section that smells a bit like a cross between rotten eggs and, well, body odor.
As far as we know, most Americans, just like us, want to get rid of the demon of nuclear war.
Les had taste, and he worked like a demon."
"There is a demon inside my soul," he wrote. "It has always been there.
Dougie (McDermott) is revealed as the demon of the pair: callous and single-minded, not hesitating to fake a terminal disease if it will help him talk his way inside the sequinned leotard of the new girl in the chorus.
My demon tries to lead me down paths I do not want to follow.
It was, I was told, a place of refuge for priests to fight the grip of the demon drink. Innocently, I asked if it was full.
She is more of a demon than a saint." The Inquisition began in Spain in 1478 and was originally aimed at discovering and punishing Jews whose conversions were considered insincere.
A foul-smelling demon supposedly plagued a house in Mannington, Ky.
It is now likely to become more explicit, as the Eurosceptics' pet demon Mr Jacques Delors hinted on Thursday, with a hard core of countries moving towards monetary union.
From these letters it's clear that Mr. Perelman was a demon for work.
A chittering demon inside the spectator says, 'Yes, but what is it all for?'
The Anti-Saloon League of America decried demon gin loud enough to get the 18th Amendment added to the Constitution in 1919.
Advocates of a freer Australian market are excoriated in language once confined to Anti-Saloon League preachers ranting about demon rum.
In the second play, "Kurozuka," Ennosuke played an old woman, actually a demon, whose soul is soothed by a Buddhist priest who says that even demons can find enlightenment.
Lawrence Taylor, the Giants' demon outside linebacker, got three of the sacks and spent more time in the Skins' backfield than some of their own ball carriers.
He said the room also contains a clay corpse Milner made to test his special effects and a cast of his own head, covered with a demon mask.
At times that demon has lured me into doing things I do not want to do.
But then Millie finds a book that talks about a demon called the Unholy, who preys on the innocent.

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