demon
demon概况
n. 恶魔；魔鬼；精力充沛的人；邪恶的事物
n. (Demon)人名；(塞)德蒙
demon词义
n.
魔鬼；恶魔；精力过人的人；邪念
变形
复数：demons
英英释义
demon[ 'di:mən ]
n.
one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
同义词：devilfienddaemondaimon
a cruel wicked and inhuman person
同义词：monsterfienddevilogre
someone extremely diligent or skillful
"he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
demon用法
词组短语
a demon for work工作起来精力过人的人，拼命工作的人，劳动能手
speed demon乱开快车者
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The villagers believed the girl was possessed by demons.
村民相信这个女孩着魔了。
He was still wrestling with his inner demons.
他仍在和内心的魔鬼角力。
The demon charmed the woman with his spell.
这个恶魔用他的魔法控制这个女人。
Her husband is a demon for work.
她丈夫工作起来精力过人。
She's a demon at chess.
她是象棋高手。
权威例句
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demon词源
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.