"You were in crack society, devilish high society," he said

“你从前是处在上流的社会之中,极其上流的社会之中,”他说。

"It makes him a devilish suspicious bastard," Harris observed

“这说明他是一个凶险狡诈的家伙”哈里斯说。

That man is in a devilish hurry!

“这真是个鬼一样性急的人!”

a devilish plot

恶毒的阴谋.

A devilish problem to solve

极难解决的问题

the proneness to which was the most devilish characteristic of this ugly engine. Knowing well her part, she ascended a flight of wooden steps, and was thus displayed to the surrounding multitude, at about the height of a man's shoulders above the street.

她深知自己此时的角色的意义,举步登上一段木梯,站到齐肩高的台上,展示在围观人群的众目睽睽之前。

It was hope that kept me alive, facing this devilish machine of slow death

面临这一缓慢处死的残忍的机械,只是凭着希望才使我继续活下去。

Devilment:Devilish behavior; mischief.

魔鬼似的行径:魔鬼似的行径;恶作剧

devilish pretty girl that! 'Pon my soul, an amazing little creature!

那姑娘真俊气!我敢说,真是一个惊人的小货色!

It was devilish hard work climbing the mountain.

爬那座山太费劲了。

One of them muttered: "A man would need to be devilish strong

其中有一个低声说:“那非得是有神力的人不行。

He suffered from awkward posture, protuberant black eyes and badly snaggled teeth, which fixed his face with a kind of devilish leer

他相貌丑陋,黑黑的蛤蟆眼,七扭八歪的牙齿,使他的脸上带有一种魔鬼般的恶意。

I will not ask you what devilish impulse moved you incite our Claude to do this awful deed

我不想问你什么鬼使神差,会唆使我们的克劳德干这种可怕的事。

I think it's devilish

我认为这是可怕的。

As long as we are fully prepared mentally, we can beat any devilish Monkey

只要我们精神上有了充分的准备,我们就可以战胜任何兴妖作怪的孙行者。

||1:He also had an outrageous side.||2:When he worked for John Paul Getty, the oil tycoon, in London in his bachelor days he fell in with the Clermont set, including John Aspinall and Lord Lucan (who had hoped to murder his wife, but killed the nanny), and hosted their illegal gambling parties.||3:During his second trial he posed for Vanity Fair in zippered black leather, tight blue jeans and a devilish grin, with a new, thrice-divorced mistressin tow.||4:He liked unsettling jokes, telling them in his best dark voice.||5:"What is another name for fear of insulin? Claustrophobia."

||1:比洛也有粗暴的一面。||2:在伦敦为石油大亨约翰·保罗·盖蒂工作时，他还是单身。他和克莱蒙特那帮人混在一起，包括约翰·阿斯皮纳尔和洛德·卢坎(他曾希望谋杀自己的妻子，但杀了保姆)，并举办了他们的非法赌博派对。||3:在他的第二次审判中，他穿着带拉链的黑色皮革，蓝色紧身牛仔裤，带着邪恶的笑容，和一个新离婚三次的情妇一起出现在《名利场》杂志上。||4:他喜欢令人不安的笑话，他会用自己最深沉的声音把他们讲出来。||5:“害怕胰岛素的另一个名字是什么？幽闭恐怖症。”

||1:Soho, an area of about half a square kilometre in the West End, has long been an anomaly in central London.||2:At the turn of the 20th century it was full of French, German, Polish and Italian immigrants; just before the first world war one writer remarked that “when the respectable Londoner wants to feel devilish he goes to Soho”.||3:Full of pretty Georgian houses and dark side streets, it resisted development in the 1970s, and it remains a red-light district: around 40 flats are still used for prostitution.||4:Film and television companies cluster above bars and restaurants.

||1:苏活区，这个位于西区近0.5平方公里的地区，长久以来都是伦敦市中心的变异型。||2:在20世纪初，这里满是法国、德国、波兰和意大利的移民；在第一次世界大战之前就有一位作家说道“当备受尊崇的伦敦人想体验邪恶生活，他们都会去苏活区。”||3:满目尽是漂亮的乔治王时代艺术风格的房屋和昏暗的街边，拒绝跟上19世纪70年代的发展，这里仍是红灯区：有近40栋楼房仍是卖淫场所。||4:电影电视公司都簇集在酒吧和餐厅的楼上。

The border mechanism is devilish to design and will be challenged at the World Trade Organisation.

边境机制的设计非常棘手，且将受到世界贸易组织的挑战。

||The devilish intricacies of economics Mr Godley seemed to overwhelm just as effortlessly.|| After a spell in business and a few years at the Treasury, he was enticed to King's College, Cambridge, which 61 years earlier another economist-aesthete, John Maynard Keynes, had joined as a lecturer, writing (with his mother's help) a letter of resignation from the civil service to his boss, a Sir Arthur Godley. This man was to become the first Lord Kilbracken and eventually grandfather of Wynne.

||戈德利先生对于如魔幻般错综复杂的经济学，应对起来似乎毫不费力。||在商界和财政部干了一些年头后，他神往起61年前另一个审美学家、经济学家约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（注1）曾经就读的剑桥国王学院来，他在向其老板老板阿瑟·戈德利男爵写（在其母亲的帮助下）了一封文员辞职信后，成为了该学院的一名讲师。那位男爵就是基尔布拉肯勋爵一世并最终成为韦恩·戈德利的祖父。

'That is devilish unkind! ' he said. 'I mean no harm - only to keep you from failing. '

“他妈的真是不知好歹！”他说，“我又没有恶意——只不过怕你摔下去了。”

Angell thought business-sponsored bills were too unmindful of the consumer, whereas businessmen thought Angell a devilish alarmist.

安杰尔认为企业赞助的法案会忽视消费者的利益，食品商人也将安杰尔视为令自己忧心忡忡的恶魔。

It's "a devilish lot of trash, " Joe Knapp Jr. told his father and advised him to give it to the committee.

乔·克纳普认为这份信是“垃圾一般的魔鬼把戏”，他建议父亲把它交给警戒委员会。

Everything then has a bitter taste, there is in me a devilish , monstrous bitterness that renders even death insipid.

在那时，任何事物都充满了苦涩的味道，体内仿佛驻扎了个恶魔，巨大的痛苦使得死亡也变得无奇。

devilish schemes

恶毒的阴谋

a devilish fine girl

很好的女孩

evil tactics;devilish stratagem

鬼蜮伎俩

to be obsessed by some devilish idea

鬼迷心窍

make a wicked suggestion;give devilish advice

出鬼点子