| 释义 |
a devil of a —— informal Used to emphasize great size or degree: photographic equipment costs a devil of a lot...- ‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble’, said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse’.
- We are sure that such things must exist, but have a devil of a time pinning them down - as detailed rules, they are not generally understood at all.
- President Theodore Roosevelt, in a private brief interview, had confided that "affairs are in a devil of a mess."
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