The boys did that just for the devil of it.
男孩子们这样做纯粹是闹着玩的。
Mary lost her handbag, and the devil of it was that the handbag contained her ID card and passport.
玛丽弄丢了挂包,更糟的是挂包里有她的身份证和护照。
Andy lost his notebook, and the devil of it was that the notebook contained all his homework for the coming week.
安迪把笔记本丢了,最坏的事情是笔记本里有他下星期的全部作业。
You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation?
你说她的心绪紊乱,她处在那种可怕的孤独中,不这样又能怎么样呢?
The Spanish conquistadors declared coca a tool of the devil, until they saw how it improved the work rate of the Indians they sent down the mines.
西班牙征服者曾宣称古柯叶是恶魔的化身,直到他们了解古柯叶提高了印地安人在地下矿坑的工作效率。
So there. I hope these ten items put a little devil on the left shoulder of every librarian who claims professional status without a good dose of self-doubt to go with it.
所以,我希望这十个问题能够给每一个自认为是专业人士而从未认真地自我怀疑过的图书馆员一点小小的警示。
Around midnight Sunday Fillmore and I retired; we had been given a room upstairs over the bar. It was sultry as the devil, not a breath of air stirring.
到了星期日午夜前后我和菲尔莫去睡了,人们给了我们一间在酒吧顶上的房间,这儿闷热极了,一点儿气也不透。
“I always get that panic when I step out of the car that everyone is going to hate it, ” Devil Wears Prada actress Emily Blunt said.
曾出演《穿普拉达的女魔头》的女演员艾米莉•布朗特曾表示:“我总是惶恐不安,担心当我踏出车门时,所有人都厌恶我的装束。”
But that they'll find it hard to make lasting progress if news from the United States and especially Europe keeps periodically scaring the devil out of investors.
但是,如果来自美国尤其是欧洲的消息老是周而复始地让投资者惊魂的话,它们就很难取得长久的进展。
That could lock higher inflation into the system, giving central Banks a devil of a job to bring it back down again.
于是整个经济体系就被通胀的上升所锁定了,接下来带给央行的便是使之回落的艰巨任务。
Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures.
的迷信。人们都相信,魔鬼远在无可稽考的年代,便已选定当地的森林作为他藏宝的地方。
It was the combination of my mother's presence of mind and my devil-may-care activism which did the job: her wits and my guts, in other words.
这项工作的完成结合了妈妈的沉着和我不顾一切的行动主义:换句话说,她的智慧和我的勇气。
It quoted to a 1678 woodcarving called the mowing devil that seems to depict the creation of a crop circle in England.
追溯到1678年,当时的木刻‘收割魔’似乎是英国最的早关于谷圈的描述。
"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it" (Thomas Carlyle).
“现在我开始认识到讽剌在总体上是魔鬼的语言;因此很久已来我已不用它了”(托马斯·卡莱尔)。
Lady: Oh, speaking of a kind devil, he finally decided on a name for his shop. It took him quite a while to pick one. Wanna know the name?
蕾蒂:哦,说到这个善良的恶魔,他终于给他的事务所起好名子了。这可花去他不少时间。想知道吗?
Speak of the devil, if it isn't Jimmy. I was just saying that we ought to get together with you sometime soon.
真是说到曹操,曹操就到啊,那不是吉米吗?我刚才在讲我们应该找个时间聚一聚。
It is the dare devil child of the intuitions which we have been having since childhood.
它是从孩提时代一直伴随我们直觉的孩子。
It is probably because of its slyness and shrewdness, the cat is often supposed to be connected whit witches and devil.
也许是由于猫看上去狡诈阴险,人们常把它与巫婆或魔鬼联系在一起。
Lk. 4:3 And the devil said to Him, If You are the Son of God, speak to this stone that it become bread.
路四3魔鬼对他说,你若是神的儿子,就叫这块石头变成饼吧。
The former Red Devil said: "Robin said on television how difficult it was for a striker of the Oranje."
前曼联传奇范尼斯特鲁伊认为,与以前的荷兰前辈相比,范佩西算不上是个天生的射手。
"it is yours, " answered the devil, "if for two years you will give me one half of everything your field produces. i have enough money, but i have a desire for the fruits of the earth.
“就归你吧!”魔鬼说,“只要你肯将两年内一半的收成给我就行了。钱,我有的是,但我更喜欢地上的果实。”
Actually, the fiery dragon was a devil and it gave the 3 soldiers a little whip and then said: "as long as you make efforts to whip it a lot of money will fall down in front of you."
其实,火龙是一个魔鬼,他送给三个士兵一根小鞭子,然后说:“你们只要用力把鞭子抽响,就会有许多钱在你们面前跳。”
Actually, the fiery dragon was a devil and it gave the 3 soldiers a little whip and then said: "as long as you make efforts to whip it a lot of money will fall down in front of you."
其实,火龙是一个魔鬼,他送给三个士兵一根小鞭子,然后说:“你们只要用力把鞭子抽响,就会有许多钱在你们面前跳。”
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