| 词汇 | example_english_diabolical |
| 释义 | Examples of diabolicalThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In such situations where the bonds of community are undone and diabolical forces are unleashed, it is a trifle pointless to place the rebels on any scale of rationality. Machines were viewed both as time-saving miracles with the promise of creating an easier life for each of us, and simultaneously as diabolical threats to our central humanity. Conical intersections : diabolical and often misunderstood. If not, from next year, old-age pensioners and other members of the travelling public will face diabolical fare increases, well above inflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The effect of press and television coverage on disruptive children has been diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I consider it diabolical that employers should have to pay taxes for the people who come to work on their premises. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You have an indefinite possibility of the diabolical development of new methods of warfare. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The system of these awards has been referred to in the medical profession as one of "diabolical secrecy". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How long have we to fight this diabolical decision? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to raise my protest against the whole infernal and diabolical business that nations are making researches to conduct war with poison gas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think he described it as a wicked and diabolical act. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a school were put anywhere near that area, it was a diabolical thing on the part of those who put it there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Far be it from me to impute diabolical motives or methods to those who take part in animal experiments today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was it some sort of diabolical harmonisation measure? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What remedies are there now for such a diabolical level of service and what remedies will there be in the future? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we wage war, sooner or later we shall do it with the cleverest and most diabolical things that we can think of. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the greatest tragedies of war is that so many succumb to a kind of diabolical dementia which turns their moral standards upside down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The diabolical hatred and venom of tyranny is seen in many such cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to get rid of all types of modern arms, just as we want to get rid of war with all its diabolical consequences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is an act of diabolical cruelty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not this a diabolical trick to prevent that being done? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any man who deliberately commits any injury to a submarine is guilty of a most diabolical act. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has enough political experience to know that that kind of device is diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two years ago, a school in my constituency suffered badly from the diabolical behaviour of a registered inspector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The situation is very worrying and this climate of violence throughout the province risks ending up in another diabolical spiral. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I think that this report can at least put an end to a number of diabolical practices to which animals are subjected. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Then there was the diabolical tragedy of the mis-selling of pensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never driven anything as diabolical and foul as that type of three-wheeled machine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind, that is diabolical in our present situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, the clerk of one county council went so far as to describe them as "diabolical". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The way that it has insulted customers is diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The word "diabolical" may have many meanings, according to the context. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hesitate to use the word "diabolical"; that would be really verballing it up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that it was planned by a wicked, diabolical man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What kind of diabolical system is it that can drive men from their own firesides? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A similar situation arose over the diabolical use of poison gas in the last war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To anyone seriously interested in improving the environment, that is a diabolical increase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position in the south-east was diabolical, awful and "shocking"—the word that we all used to describe the scenes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that not diabolical when, to enjoy an ordinary life, the owners of those cars are dependent upon wheels and not legs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I only hope that the authors of the legislation come to our assistance when we debate the diabolical plan to introduce football identity cards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I view this as a diabolical interference with our liberties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under subsection (10), any diabolical invention of the future can become an immobilisation device. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To contemplate the use of biological and chemical agents to this end is not only inhuman but diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Seriously, that is a diabolical discrimination and it could do great damage to many individuals and small employers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder now whether that was a good thing to do—it was at the time, but now the plaice are in a diabolical state. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is a substitute for self-determination it is diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are being forced, because of these diabolical ideological arguments that they do not understand, into indescribable suffering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Proof is available that those involved in this diabolical sport are quite often known criminals who take very good care to cover their tracks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me it is retrograde, it is diabolical, and this gives me an opportunity of stating my views. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He says that he knows who committed those diabolical offences, yet when asked to disclose their names, he flatly refuses to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the phraseology is diabolical and destroys the purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In these diabolical proposals the free society is placed formally at risk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The effect is diabolical, because those who try to work in this field are diverted from one person to another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nowadays the doctrine of force has received tremendous strength and diabolical power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that it is a diabolical instrument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First one nation used them, and then another nation used them, and so the whole diabolical business goes on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been and there continues to be, however, a vicious and diabolical campaign of slander against the regiment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not accept that they are diabolical practices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure that "diabolical" is the correct word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are fighting the most diabolical, most organised and most scientific men the world has ever known or conceived of. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Believe it or not, the very parish council which complained that its bus services were diabolical was frightened of change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has just described a speech as diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Calculated and diabolical cruelty has been inflicted on other people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think they are diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Altogether it was a diabolical condition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are dealing with a diabolical crisis which we cannot envisage, surely it will not be enough only to control fuel in the most general sense of the word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has learned from independent travellers that the health situation there is diabolical due primarily to extra shortages of medicine and the desperate situation concerning water pumps and filters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From this it is possible to realise the great stress that this young woman has undergone as a direct result of this diabolical decision of the magistrates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regard them as diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of those advertisements are diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that the fruit machine is a most diabolical instrument, and, moreover, that its proliferation in the course of recent months has really been frightening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The idea that somehow we are on a diabolical slide into even more and more expensive subsidisation of services does not stand up in relation to this amendment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not go along with the proposition that privatisation is a panacea for all the industry's ills or that it is a diabolical plot to poison our constituents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The history of medicine is a series of episodes of memorable intransigence followed by the later acceptance of techniques which, at the time, were seen as diabolical or miraculous. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Anyone who knows the snare knows it to be a diabolical instrument which causes incalculable suffering and takes a very long time to ensure the death of its victim. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People are being decanted from institutions—that is a diabolical expression to use about human beings, but that is what is said—and there is no provision for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it had not been done it would have had the most diabolical consequences both for the people concerned and for the overseas reputation of our country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What happened there was diabolical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My criticism was of the diabolical way in which some local authorities, quite deliberately, are making cuts in places where they ought not to be made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the hunters quietly paddled the punt until he was among his victims and then the other one blasted off with this diabolical instrument of death and destruction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Finally, there is a sort of diabolical profit to be made from this phenomenon of non-state terror, as democracies may now perhaps realise more clearly what their endangered values are. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am convinced there is nobody—in the capitalist class or anywhere else—who could be so diabolical as to wish to see a calamity of this kind take place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder whether he has considered the diabolical effect on such people through having to pay capital gains tax in order to get themselves into a position to trade legally. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would ask those who attempt to say that this is a wicked, diabolical and filthy agitation by certain newspaper proprietors to choose their words a little more carefully. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The chief constable could recommend so many men for promotion as against the old diabolical system where some watch committee member had to sell goods for a living. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We say that is diabolical if the devil can trap an arbitrarily powerful angel regardless of its starting position. Clearly any subgraph of a diabolical graph is diabolical. At some point additional punishment in the form of additional suffering seems diabolical and seems to have nothing to do with justice at all. She tempted me; but she failed in her diabolical efforts. Once again, however, there were respondents who acknowledged, for example, that 'the money's diabolical, but my boss is really good'. Is every diabolical group either finite or virtually cyclic? Another witness was worried whether the healing rituals used by the accused were in fact magical and diabolical. Critics from both confessions condemned the attempt to divine a certain future and attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural, diabolical and divine signs. A day earlier, she had been convicted of conjuring evil spirits, entertaining diabolical imps, and casting harmful spells. As the film becomes increasingly diabolical areas appear black, when once they were white. They have a diabolical simplicity. If the semitone figure is stereotypical in its depiction of a lamenting sigh, then the scale spanning a tritone serves as the archetypal musical marker of the diabolical. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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