(noun.) someone extremely diligent or skillful; 'he worked like a demon to finish the job on time'; 'she's a demon at math'.
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双语例句
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.