fiendishly

adv.

1. 很；极其
   very; extremely
   1. fiendishly clever/complicated
      极其巧妙 / 复杂

1. ADJ-GRADED (计划、行动、装置等)巧妙的，富有想象力的
   A fiendish plan, action, or device is very clever or imaginative.
   1. ...a fiendish plot.
      巧妙复杂的计谋
2. ADJ-GRADED 极其困难的;极具挑战性的
   A fiendish problem or task is very difficult and challenging.
   1. A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.
      只要干净利落地做一个选择，你就能自己设计出难以解开的谜题。
   2. ...the fiendish difficulty of the questions.
      这些问题极度困难之处
3. ADJ-GRADED 以残忍为乐的;恶魔般的
   A fiendish person enjoys being cruel.
   1. This was a fiendish act of wickedness.
      这是极其恶毒的行为。

1. Obtaining such approval, however, in a financial system dominated by state-run entities, is fiendishly difficult.
   然而，在一个由国有机构占据主导的金融体系内部，获得上述审批又是何等之难。
2. Decades of research has shown that predicting whether even the most generic mutual fund will beat the market is fiendishly difficult.
   数十年的研究表明，哪怕是预测最普通的共同基金是否可以跑赢市场都是非常困难的。
3. Many of them are believed to originate in China, as it tries to modernise its military without having to spend decades developing fiendishly complicated technology, such as that used to make the latest generation of western fighter jets that are near-invisible to radar.
   中国力图实现军事现代化，但可能又不想花费数十年之功发展那些极端复杂的技术，比如西方用于制造新一代战斗机的技术，这一代战斗机是雷达几乎无从捕捉的。
4. Revised draft regulations published this month, which even experienced lawyers regard as fiendishly complex, set out thresholds based on global and domestic turnover which, if met, will make merger filings mandatory.
   印度本月公布的法律修订草案，就连富有经验的律师都认为其极为复杂。该草案设定的门槛以全球及国内营业额为基础，一旦达到相关规定，企业就必须提出并购申请。
5. Many of theseallowances are fiendishly complicated; they distort business decisions andraise the cost of tax compliance.
   这类补贴机制通常极其复杂，甚至会扭曲商业决策过程，并提高税务合规成本。
6. Not only did the sector expand at a startling rate in recent decades but the "investment chain" that links those supplying capital with the people who ultimately use it has become fiendishly complex, riddled with agents creaming off fees along the way.
   最近几十年，该行业不仅一直在以惊人的速度增长，连接出资人与资金最终使用者的“投资链条”也已变得极为复杂，到处充斥着揩油的中间商。
7. Tracking the scale of this business is fiendishly difficult, since it is bespoke and opaque.
   衡量这种业务规模的难度极高，因为这些交易是定制且非公开的。
8. Whether to maximise returns or minimise tax, many millionaires have built fiendishly complicated financial constructions to handle their wealth, crossing numerous jurisdictions.
   不管是为了回报最大化还是把税收降至最少，许多百万富翁在操作自己的财富时，建起了极为复杂的金融架构，覆盖了众多司法管辖区域。
9. The only problem, he added, was that it was fiendishly difficult to work out exactly who the enemy really was or where it might be.
   他补充道，唯一的问题在于，人们极难认清究竟谁是真正的敌人或敌人可能在哪里。
10. Each one is more fiendishly clever than the last.
    每解开一个线索，下一个就更难。
11. The tarp auction is a fiendishly difficult design problem, but it looks solvable.
    不良资产救助计划拍卖会的设计极其艰难，但似乎是可以解决的。
12. It is true that breaking up the euro would be fiendishly difficult and dangerous.
    诚然，废除欧元将是极其艰难和危险的。
13. For those willing to invest the time and effort to challenge boards, restrictive rules adopted by the SEC make it fiendishly difficult and prohibitively expensive to put forward alternative candidates.
    如果有人愿意花时间和精力挑战董事会，美国证交会实施的限制性规则，也会使推举其他人选极为困难，而且成本不菲。
14. The plan, so simple in theory, has proved fiendishly difficult to implement, not least because the government is trying to achieve three incompatible goals.
    方案理论上看似简单可行，但由于政府最初为方案设立的三个目标自相矛盾，实际上变得操作极难。
15. Such exercises might make sense in domestic political terms; but they are apt to be fiendishly expensive. Thus the upshot of this misallocation, Mr Currie would argue, is even more inflation – even if the world does experience some form of growth slowdown.
    这些做法可能符合国内政治逻辑，却耗资巨大。因而，柯里会提出，即便整个世界确实遭遇某种形式的增长减缓，这种配置失衡的结果仍是更多的通胀。
16. It shouldn't be so hard, since all you need to do to lose weight is to consume fewer calories than your body burns up, yet it is something that many of us find fiendishly difficult.
    其实减肥并不难，你所需要做的就是摄入的卡路里比消耗的卡路里少，但在大多数人眼里，这一点却很难做到。
17. The handset market is fiendishly competitive.
    手机市场竞争异常激烈。
18. As for coal, it is fiendishly dirty: Britain will be breaking just about every green promise it has ever made if it is using anything like as much as it does today.
    用煤的话又太不洁净：如果英国保持目前的用煤量，它所做过的任何环保承诺都将变成一纸空文。
19. The economics of this are easy to describe but fiendishly difficult to achieve in practice.
    描述这条道路的经济学原理不难，但要想在实践中做到这点却极其困难。
20. The other big problem that makes it hard to calculate the "real" scale of mortgage-linked losses at banks is that it is often fiendishly hard to get an accurate value for mortgage-linked assets and thus determine how much prices have fallen so far.
    导致我们难以计算投行抵押贷款相关损失“实际”规模的另一个大问题是，要知道抵押贷款相关资产的准确价值进而确定迄今的价格下跌幅度，通常都极其困难。
21. The fiendishly complex products that seemed for a time to define a new financial capitalism will be seen for what they properly are: instruments of deception as much as of innovative genius.
    那些极度复杂的产品似乎一度定义了新金融资本主义，它们将会被恰当定位：既是创新天才的工具，但同时也是行骗的工具。

adv

1. as a devil
   1. his writing could be diabolically satiric

   Synonym:    diabolicallydevilishly