devil

I'm having a devil of a job fixing my car.

我修我这辆汽车可费劲了。

Disentangling all this barbed wire is the devil's own job.

理这些带刺的铁丝,真是个苦差事。

What a miserable old devil Scrooge was!

斯克鲁奇是多麽可恶的吝啬鬼呀!

There'll be the devil to pay if you scratch my car!

你要是划坏了我的汽车你就有麻烦了!

He had a devil of a time getting home.

他回家时一路上十分辛苦(历尽艰辛)。

He has lost his job, poor devil!

他失业了,可怜的人!

She seemed to be possessed (by the devil).

她好像著了魔似的。

He was the devil of a fellow. He was the lover of a married woman.

他是个糟透了的家伙。他是一个有夫之妇的情人。

The Devil tempted Adam and Eve.

魔鬼诱惑了亚当和夏娃。

Cold weather plays the devil with my rheumatism.

天一冷,我的风湿病就犯了。

Talk of the devil and he will appear.

说到曹操,曹操就到。

She found out her husband was a devil soon after her marriage.

结婚后不久她就发现她丈夫是一个邪恶的人。

There will be the devil to pay.

后果不堪设想。

Joe is in a devil of a hole.

乔现在处境非常尴尬。

If inflation becomes much worse there will be the devil to pay.

如果通货膨胀更恶化,其后果将不堪设想。

The delay on the track has played the very devil with the train timetable.

铁路线上的这次误点已严重打乱了列车的运行安排。

The personification of evil as a devil is a feature of medieval painting.

用魔鬼象徵罪恶是中世纪绘画的特色。

For the devil of it, Coke put a dead snake in my bed.

科克恶作剧,把一条死蛇放在我的床里。

It's a situation of dog-eat-dog and the devil take the hindmost.

这是一个自相残杀,落后遭殃的局面。

The enemy soldiers fled and let the devil catch the hindmost.

敌兵纷纷逃窜,听任后面的人遭殃。

Alice would play the devil with me for my stupidity.

爱丽丝会对我的愚蠢行为十分恼火的。

The guards were sadistic beasts and their leader was the devil incarnate.

那些警卫都是残暴的野兽,他们的首领是个魔鬼的化身。

Mrs.White seems to have a devil of a temper, but she is a rough diamond.

怀特太太看来脾气很坏,但她是个心地很好的人。

The guards are sadistic beasts and their leader is the devil incarnate.

那些警卫都是残暴的野兽,他们的首领是个魔鬼的化身。

In this business you have to be tough, and the devil take the hindmost.

干这一行必须心狠,谁顾别人谁吃亏。

The boy got mixed up with bad company and began to steal and rob his friends. He went to the devil.

这男孩与坏朋友胡混而开始偷抢他朋友的东西,他变坏了。

I don't like him either. But to give the devil his due, I must admit that he is a pretty talented person.

我也不喜欢他。不过说句公道话,我得承认他是个很有才华的人。

I don't like my English teacher, but to give the devil his due, I must admit that he is good teacher.

我不喜欢我的英语老师,但平心而论,我必须承认他是个好老师。

I don't really believe in capital punishment, I'm just playing the devil's advocate.

我并非真正主张应该有死刑,只是故意唱唱反调罢了。

It's bad manners of Dennis always to keep us waiting. Shall we go? Oh, talk of the devil, there he is.

丹尼斯很不礼貌,总是让我们等他,咱们走吧!噢,说到曹操,曹操就到。他来了。

Our new puppy played the very devil with me, he's been trying to chew the furniture all day.

我们家一条新来的小狗把我害苦了,它整天试图咀嚼家具。

Andy lost his notebook, and the devil of it was that the notebook contained all his homework for the coming week.

安迪把笔记本丢了,最坏的事情是笔记本里有他下星期的全部作业。

Of course I won't run you to the station in the ambulance! There'd be the devil and all to pay if it was needed in a hurry.

当然我不会用救护车送你到车站!如果紧急需要救护车那可就麻烦了。

His enemy was close behind him, and the bridge over the ravine was rotten and swaying. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, he hesitated.

敌人就在背后,而前面横跨在深谷之上的桥已经腐朽不堪,摇摇晃晃。他处在两难之中,犹豫了起来。

If there only some shorter and more direct route to the devil, it would save an awful lot of sorrow and anxiety in this world.

只要有更短而又直接通往灭亡的大道,这世上就可省却不少悲哀与忧愁的吧。

He is a lazy devil and keeps his talent in a napkin, with his ability and a little energy he could set the Thames on fire.

他是一个懒鬼,把天资埋没了。只要发挥出他的才干,再加上一点干劲,他可以干出一番惊天动地的大事来。

The devil take the hindmoSt.

落在后头,只好吃亏。落后者遭殃。

My niece is a little devil.

我的侄女是个调皮鬼。

He's an artful devil!

他诡计多端!

Which silly devil left the fire on all day?

是哪个笨蛋没将炉火熄掉,烧了这一整天?

Gave me the devil for cutting class.

我因旷课而受到了严厉的惩罚

A handsome devil; the poor devil.

漂亮的人; 可怜的家伙

An evil supernatural being; a devil.

恶魔罪恶的超自然的人物; 魔鬼

The devil in the Faust legend to whom Faust sold his soul.

墨菲斯托菲里斯浮士德传说中的魔鬼,浮士德将自己的灵魂出卖给了这个魔鬼

He was almost possessed by a devil.

他几乎着了魔。

The poor devil had another heart attack last night.

那个可怜的人昨晚心脏病又发作了。

He needs a long spoon who sup with the devil.

与鬼打交道,警惕不可少。

Some say her father is the devil and all.

有的人说她父亲坏透了。

He disputed like a devil on these two points.

在这两点上,他争得非常激烈。

He may get the devil and all the money.

他可以把这笔臭钱全部拿去。