demon

• n. 恶魔；魔鬼；精力充沛的人；邪恶的事物
• n. (Demon)人名；(塞)德蒙

来自PIE*da, 分开，分配，命运的分配者。原指神灵，后词义贬义化，指魔鬼。

1. one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

2. a cruel wicked and inhuman person

3. someone extremely diligent or skillful;

"he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"

"she's a demon at math"

demon

demon: [14] English acquired this word from Latin in two forms, classical Latin daemōn and medieval Latin dēmōn, which were once used fairly interchangeably for ‘evil spirit’ but have now split apart. Demon retains the sense ‘evil spirit’, but this was in fact a relatively late semantic development. Greek daímōn (source of Latin daemōn) meant ‘divine power, fate, god’ (it is probably related to Greek daíomai ‘distribute, allot’, which comes from an Indo- European base whose descendants include English tide and time).

It was used in Greek myths as a term for a minor deity, and it was also applied to a ‘guiding spirit’ (senses now usually denoted by daemon in English). It seems to be from this latter usage that the sense ‘evil spirit’ (found in the Greek Septuagint and New Testament and in the Latin Vulgate) arose.
=> pandemonium, time, tide

demon (n.)

c. 1200, from Latin daemon "spirit," from Greek daimon "deity, divine power; lesser god; guiding spirit, tutelary deity" (sometimes including souls of the dead); "one's genius, lot, or fortune;" from PIE *dai-mon- "divider, provider" (of fortunes or destinies), from root *da- "to divide" (see tide (n.)).

Used (with daimonion) in Christian Greek translations and Vulgate for "god of the heathen" and "unclean spirit." Jewish authors earlier had employed the Greek word in this sense, using it to render shedim "lords, idols" in the Septuagint, and Matt. viii:31 has daimones, translated as deofol in Old English, feend or deuil in Middle English. Another Old English word for this was hellcniht, literally "hell-knight."

The original mythological sense is sometimes written daemon for purposes of distinction. The Demon of Socrates was a daimonion, a "divine principle or inward oracle." His accusers, and later the Church Fathers, however, represented this otherwise. The Demon Star (1895) is Algol.

the demons of jealousy

恶魔一样的嫉妒心

牛津词典

He skis like a demon.

他滑雪技艺超群。

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demons torturing the sinners in Hell

地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼

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He was seen as a demon, determined to hand the country over to the reactionaries.

他被看成一个执意要将国家交给反动分子的恶魔。

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She was a dictator and a demon...

她是一个独裁者，一个女魔头。

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He is a demon organizer.

他组织能力极强。

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He played like a demon...

他球艺惊人。

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...the demons of hatred, violence and ethnic fanaticism.

仇恨、暴力和种族狂热主义等诸恶

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His private demons drove him to drink excessively for many years.

他个人的心魔让他多年以来酗酒度日。

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...a woman possessed by demons.

被魔鬼附身的女子

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Under the Watchful eye of the demon, wander alone in the formless Chaos.

在恶魔的警惕之眼下, 独自在无形的混乱中漫步.

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Your son's a little demon.

你儿子是个小调皮鬼.

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The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.

贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Unfortunately the wolf demon had defrauded little monkey of the pithy formula.

但老狼已经从小猴口中骗取了马兰花的口诀.

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The Demon Knight is an armored demons riding demonic steeds with glowing red eyes.

恶魔骑士全身盔甲,骑在魔鬼战马背上,赤色的眼珠一直不断在燃烧.

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Gao Taigong asks Wang Tianshi a Sorcerer to vanquish this demon.

高太公请王天师降妖.

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Alucard : No! You're not my mother! What kind of demon are you?

不! 你不是我母亲! 你是什么东西?

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Topics include Brownian motion, thermal noise, information theory, entropy, and the author's view of Maxwell's Demon.

其中包括有布朗运动, 热噪声, 信息理论, 熵和作者本身对麦克斯韦妖的看法.

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After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

在精神净化后, 他遇见邪魔并展开激烈的战斗.

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You're an incomplete being as well. Both demon and human blood mingle in your veins.

你也是一个不完整的存在, 你的体内混杂着恶魔和人类的血.

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When they came to the fork of the road, his horse turned left into a bypath as if it were possessed with a demon and began to run headlong down the hill.

当他们来到叉路口时, 他的马就好像被鬼缠住似的,转向左边的小路而急速地冲下山坡去.

《简明英汉词典》

It was this demon that almost cast Europe into an unfathomable abyss of anguish and suffering.

这个恶魔几乎把整个欧洲送进了一个苦难的无底深渊.

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She worked like a demon all through rehearsals.

她每次排演时始终精力过人.

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Shippo is a cute little fox demon.

七宝是一只可爱的小狐妖.

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Capture Biara and find the way to Isabel and the Demon Sovereign.

活捉拜娅拉,找到通往伊莎贝尔和魔王所在地的道路.

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The demon charmed the woman with his spell.

这个恶魔用他的魔法控制这个女人.

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Demon taro bean curd is old little all appropriate goodand cheap in price, favor by consumer.

魔芋豆腐老少皆宜,价廉物美, 深受消费者青睐.

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