Soon he came to an island inhabited by a powerful she-devil.

不一会儿，他来到一座小岛，岛上住着一个强大的恶女魔。

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They are Aunt Carey, Mildred and Sally, who respectively represent the authors three woman images—tragic angel, she-devil and ideal woman.

她们分别代表了毛姆心目中女性的三种形象——可悲的“天使”、“女恶魔”和理想女性。

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During the trials, Ms. Knox became a highly divisive figure, depicted as a cunning she-devil in Italy and a victim of a ham-handed Italian justice system in the U.S. Critics charged that the case was based mostly on circumstantial evidence.

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But with the controversies that have come up and the fact that she barely won in 2012, she was going to have her own devil-in-the-details time going through an investigation in 2013 and trying to win in 2014.

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In the older film, the 12-year-old Regan starts acting up because, well, she's possessed by the devil, but also because her parents have just divorced and she now lives with her single mom, a working actress, and you know how that goes.

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