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A demon is an evil spirit in stories and religion. It's also used more loosely for a deep personal struggle — 'fighting your demons' means dealing with strong emotional or mental problems, not literal spirits.
惡魔；心魔
組成From an old Greek word 'daimon,' which originally just meant 'a spirit,' not necessarily an evil one.
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Demonname詞源 2/ˈdiː.mən/
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A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.
demonnoun詞源 1/ˈdiː.mən/
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An evil supernatural being.
- So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his undercover agent in the world. These Gnostics equated Ialdabaoth with the Hebrew Yahweh, whom they saw as a jealous and wrathful deity and an opponent of the supreme God whom Jesus came to earth to reveal. Whoever wrote the Gospel of Judas was a harsh critic of mainstream Christianity and its rituals. Because Judas is a demon working for Ialdabaoth, the author believed, when Judas sacrifices Jesus he does so to the demons, not to the supreme God. This mocks mainstream Christians' belief in the atoning value of Jesus' death and in the effectiveness of the Eucharist.
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historicalAn evil supernatural being.
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An evil supernatural being.
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An evil supernatural being.
- The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
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An evil supernatural being.
- After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.
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A neutral supernatural being.
- Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.
- “You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else's dæmon.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA neutral supernatural being.
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A neutral supernatural being.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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A neutral supernatural being.
- Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A.
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Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- He’s a demon at the card tables.
- Chelsea defended like demons to snuff out Manchester City but this was a perfectly calibrated triumph, built upon a structured attacking approach, choosing the right moments to transition, and illuminated by the smoothness of Havertz’s technique.
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card-gamesgamesA type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- ‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.
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Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。