But bringing beams of light together in exactly the same place and at precisely same time, a technique called interferometer, proved devilishly difficult and was largely abandoned until recently

但是，分毫不差地在同一时间、同一地点将多束光线合在一起(这种技术叫做干涉测量法)是非常困难的，因而一直都被人们弃而不用，直到最近才引起人们的注意。

There is no half way work about its influence. If it ennobles, it does it grandly; if it demoralizes, it does it devilishly .

它的影响没有折中之道。友谊，如果使人高尚，就会使人如天使般庄重;如果使人堕落，就会使人如魔鬼般邪恶。

I should say she was a devilishly accomplished, clever girl, and would make a good wife with a sensible husband

我得说，她是一个非常完美，非常聪明的女孩子，在精明的丈夫那里可以成为得力的贤内助。

||1:One possible reason for the slowdown is that bribery techniques are growing more sophisticated and thus harder to detect.||2:Another could be the widespread use of opaque corporate structures to conceal wrongdoing.||3:These can be devilishly difficult to unpick, especially when they are stacked in several layers and fronted by nominee directors.||4:Anonymous shell companies and other intermediaries—sometimes dressed up as “consultants”—were used to move or to house payments in more than 70% of cases.||5:The OECD report underlines the importance of cracking down on the misuse of shell companies and enforcing more clarity over ownership of companies and trusts, whether through accessible corporate registers—a move being pushed by some G20 countries, led by Britain—or by tougher regulation of service providers that do the paperwork for new firms.

||1:放缓的原因之一是收受贿赂的手段越来越玄妙，从而更难于察觉。||2:另一个原因可能是普遍使用的不透明公司结构隐匿了丑行。||3:剥离这些结构异常艰难，特别当是这种组织层层堆叠，由提名董事来在前面顶缸的时候。||4:在70%的案例中，匿名的皮包公司和其他中间人（通常扮演“顾问公司”角色）用来转移或隐匿所支付款项。||5:经合组织的报告凸显了打击滥用空壳公司和明晰公司及信托公司权属的重要性，要么是通过方便的公司注册检索（一些G20国家推动了该项运动，由英国牵头），要么对负责经办新公司事宜的服务商的严格监管。

||1: Even with better politics and the best-laid plans, it would be a mistake to expect too much too fast. ||2: Entrenched subsidies anywhere are devilishly difficult to get rid of. ||3: If the oil price rises, so too will the pressure on emerging economies to “protect” their citizens from dearer fuel. ||4: But, for the moment, there seems to be a chance to accelerate reform. It is an opportunity not to be missed.

||1:尽管有着更好的政治氛围和最好的计划，预期太多太快都是错误的。||2:在任何地方，根深蒂固的补贴都是很难摆脱的。||3:如果油价上涨，那么新兴经济体“保护”市民不受更贵燃料影响的压力就会上涨。||4:但是，目前来看，加快改革似乎是有机会的，这一机会不可错失。

The second is that the sandwich choice is devilishly complicated.

第二，选择三明治是个极其复杂的问题。

Third, much of the best technology is still devilishly expensive.

第三是多数最好的技术仍然非常昂贵。

The expense accounts of executives are fascinating documents, though what story they tell can be devilishly hard to work out.

高管的报销清单引人入胜，然而它们背后隐藏的故事很难说清楚。

Its problems mainly stem from the insurance coverage it provided to banks on devilishly complex structured products.

麻烦主要源于这家保险公司为魔鬼一样复杂的银行产品所提供的保证金。

So why did Facebook become so devilishly infectious so quickly, just about the most exciting place on the web to see and be seen?

那么Facebook为什么风靡得如此迅速，几乎成了最令人兴奋的交友场所？

Much of the second half is taken up with the devilishly tricky business of trying to extract causation from correlation.

下半部分的大部分内容处理的是努力从相关性引出因果关系这种特别微妙的做法。

Finding the right partners abroad will be devilishly hard.

在海外寻找合适的合作伙伴是一项艰巨的任务；

DIVINING what the future holds is tricky at the best of times; at the worst, it is devilishly difficult.

在最有利的情况下，预测未来发展是很复杂的，在最糟的时候，那更是非常困难了。

There is something to this: It can be devilishly hard to pull apart fiction from reality.

这很说明问题：要把虚构的东西和现实剥离开来可能极端困难。