22-09-27 上周，席卷英国和爱尔兰的热浪不仅使得气温飙升，还给这些地区的人们带来一种不甚熟悉的天气现象、一个术语。 威尔士波伊斯郡的居民在上周惊讶地发现了一股碎屑和岩渣的小旋风，并称其为dust devil（尘魔）。这些尘魔在暖空气的上升气流开始旋转时形成。 这种用devil来...

22-05-20 表达 a devil of a job 比喻 一项非常棘手和烦人的体力或脑力活。这种任务通常让人费尽周折，唯恐避之而不及，任何必须完成它的人都免不了灰心丧气，甚至气急败坏、恼羞成怒。 例句 I need to turn this screw to stop the water flow to my taps, but I just cant rea...

22-04-25 6、devil is not so black as he is painted No one is as bad as people say he is. (Implies that people are saying too many bad things about someone.) 没有人有人们口中的那么坏。（指的是人们通常会说某人太多的坏话） I cant believe that actress is as cold...

21-05-22 汉语俗语 说曹操，曹操就到 用来描述 正当谈论某个人的时候，那个人就出现了 的情景。英语表达 talk of the devil 谈论魔鬼 也能谈论同样的情况。人们有时会把 talk of the devil 中的动词 talk 替换成 speak，即 speak of the devil，意思不变。 例句 Talk of the dev...

20-11-21 正在谈论某人的时候，他/她恰好就出现了，真是说曹操，曹操到。这个汉语俗语用来形容的就是这种情景。在英文中，也有一个很地道的表达来谈论同样的情况，talk of the devil。有些时候人们用speak of the devil来表达相同的意思。《简明英汉词典》则给出了更为全面的解...

14-01-23 A woman whose husband often came home drunk decided to cure him of the habit. One Halloween night, she put on a devil suit and hid behind a tree to intercept him on the way home. When her husband came by, she jumped out and stood before him with her...

13-03-27 There was once on a time a far-sighted, crafty（狡猾的） peasant whose tricks were much talked about. The best story is, however, how he once got hold of the Devil, and made a fool of him. The peasant had one day been working in his field, and as tw...

13-03-21 The preacher was vexed（生气的） because a certain member of his congregation（集合，聚会） always fell asleep during the sermon. As the man was snoring in the front row one Sunday, the preacher determined he would teach him not to sleep during the...