" A fiendish smile played over the features of Caderousse, who was about to break in upon the abb’s speech, when the latter, waving his hand, said, "Allow me to finish first, and then if you have any observations to make, you can do so afterwards

”卡德鲁斯的脸上现出了一个阴沉的微笑，他想插话进来，但教士摆了摆手，说，“先让我把话说完了，然后假如您有什么意见的话，那时再说好。

Of,resembling,or worthy of hell;fiendish .

地狱般的，恶魔似的地狱的，地狱般的，与地狱相称的;恶魔般的

The possession of annihilative power has not slowed down the drive toward even more fiendish modes of inflicting wholesale death(Saturday Review)

对毁灭性力量的拥有并未减缓向更残忍的大规模杀伤手段发展的速度(星期六评论)

Demonic, also daemonic:Befitting a demon; fiendish .

恶魔般的:适合作魔鬼的;魔鬼似的

A fiendish blizzard;a fiendish problem.

极大的暴风雪;极大的难题

The last of the sacred Nineteen had fallen a prey to the fiendish sack

十九家圣人中硕果仅存的一位也被那只惨无人道的钱袋吞吃了

Heathcliff chuckled a fiendish laugh at the idea

希斯克厉夫想到这里格格地发出一种魔鬼似的笑声。

||1: The term coined in the book’s title encapsulates the thesis. ||2: The “bloodlands” are the stretch of territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea where Europe’s most murderous regimes did their most murderous work. ||3: The bloodlands were caught between two fiendish projects: Adolf Hitler’s ideas of racial supremacy and eastern expansion, and the Soviet Union’s desire to remake society according to the communist template. ||4: That meant shooting, starving and gassing those who didn’t fit in. ||5: Just as Stalin blamed the peasants for the failure of collectivisation, Hitler blamed the Jews for his military failures in the east. ||6: As Mr Snyder argues, “Hitler and Stalin thus shared a certain politics of tyranny: they brought about catastrophes, blamed the enemy of their choice, and then used the death of millions to make the case that their policies were necessary or desirable. ||7: Each of them had a transformative Utopia, a group to be blamed when its realisation proved impossible, and then a policy of mass murder that could be proclaimed as a kind of ersatz victory.”

||1:本书题目中所造的词语是其主题的浓缩。||2:“血染之地”就是指从黑海至波罗的海这片土地，在这片土地上，欧洲最杀人如麻的政权犯下了最为残暴的恶行。||3:这片血染之地夹在两个恶魔般的计划之间：阿道夫-希特勒的种族优越思想和东扩的念头，以及苏联按共产主义模式再造世界的强烈欲望。||4:这就意味着对于那些与这两个计划的格格不入的人，就要被枪毙、饿死或用毒气毒死。||5:就像斯大林将社会主义集体化的失败归咎于农民身上那样，希特勒把在东方的军事失败归咎于犹太人。||6:正如Snyder所说，“故斯大林和希特勒的暴政是有着某些共同之处的，他们都带来灾难，归罪他们的自己所指的敌人，然后用数百万人死亡的代价来证明他们的政策是必要或理想的。||7:二人都建立了变种的乌托邦，当发现政策根本不现实时，就归咎于一群人，然后就可以把大屠杀政策宣称为一场虚假的胜利了。”

On the face of it, this was not a turbulent life. Mr Godley said he had a lonely childhood, involving a violent maiden aunt and the “chamber of horrors of a British prep school”.|| Later, in his 30s, he lived life “through an artificial self” in “a state of dissociation”, which drove him into the clutches of a fiendish psychoanalyst. This in turn blighted his middle years.||

||单从表面上看，上述这一切算不上是混沌难驭的人生经历。戈德利说过，他有一个陷于粗暴未婚姑妈和“英国预科学校恐怖屋”之难的孤独童年。后来，在他30多岁期间，他过着“分裂状态”下“自我十足虚假”的生活，这种生活驱使他成为刁钻心理分析学家的掌中物。这种生活也相应地折磨着他的中年。||

In this context, the females of Leucauge argyra, a Central American species, are particularly fiendish .

中美洲有种雌性长角银腹蛛，其凶残至极的个性就是上述情况的最好体现。

The fiendish thing about the GMAT is the adaptive multiple choice sections: if you get questions right, they are likely to get harder.

GMAT考试中最让人讨厌的是多选部分：如果你正确理解了问题，答题反倒可能变得更难。

OW: It is a shooter, but we have thrown in some fiendish adversaries that you will have to fight off with some context [specific] moves.

OmarWoodley：玩家主要还是射手，但是我们将一些非常凶残的对手扔进了游戏中，你不得不利用游戏场景并通过特殊的移动与其作战。

Getting 194 nations to agree on anything, let alone a re-tooling of the global energy system that drives economies, is fiendish .

让194个国家对所有事情达成一致意见是残酷的，更不用说重整驱动经济发展的全球能源体系。

Then came the fiendish Japanese with their marvellous photocopiers and cameras and cars.

随后是恶魔般的日本人，他们拥有了不起的复印机、照相机和汽车。