They believed she was possessed by devils.

他们认为她是魔鬼附身。

Joe had willed everything he possessed to them.

乔把自己拥有的一切都遗赠给了他们。

She has convinced herself that she is possessed by the devil.

她确信自己被魔鬼附了身。

She even claimed the couple's daughter was possessed by the devil.

她甚至声称这对夫妇的女儿被魔鬼附体了。

Julian possessed outstanding business skills.

朱利安具有出色的商业技巧。

The level of skill possessed by the local workforce varies with location.

当地劳动力所拥有的技能水平因地点而异。

Never in her life had she seen the like, and now she really possessed it and could cut it herself.

她一生中从未见过这样的东西，现在她真的拥有了它，可以自己切割它。

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

雅典越来越被看作是一个拥有巨大财富的合作企业，所有公民都有分享财富的权利。

It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent.

有时候，一个人被说话的冲动所支配，在别人保持沉默的时候说话，这是完全正常的。

Once humans possessed such a mind, they were able to find an imaginative solution to a situation of severe economic crisis such as the farming dilemma described earlier.

一旦人类拥有了这样的头脑，他们就能够找到一个富有想象力的解决方案来应对严重的经济危机，比如前面所描述的农业困境。

By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds of the territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area was being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians.

到八世纪早期，帝国已经失去了大约三分之二的领土，其拥有了600年的剩余土地正在遭受阿拉伯人和保加利亚人的袭击。

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, many Western Pueblo settlements in what is now the southwestern United States may have possessed distinctly hierarchical organizational structures.

在14世纪和15世纪，许多位于现在美国西南部的西部普韦布洛定居点可能拥有明显的等级组织结构。

What possessed him to say such a thing?

他着了什么魔竟说出这种话来？

Joe had willed them everything he possessed.

乔把自己拥有的一切都遗赠给了他们。

He flew out of the room like a man possessed.

他猛然冲出房门，像着了魔似的。

She was possessed of exceptional powers of concentration.

她有高超的专注能力。

If only my father had possessed an ounce of business sense.

要是我父亲有一点点商业头脑就好了。

It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits.

以前，人们相信人有可能被恶魔缠身。

She is clearly the most articulate and self-possessed member of her family.

显然，她是全家口才最好、最沉着冷静的人。

The Nakani were evil spirits who looked like humans and possessed supernatural powers.

纳卡尼是恶魔，看起来像人类，却具有超自然力量。

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

是什么恶魔控制了我，让我如此墨守成规？

We've found him ourselves, miles from home, and quite self-possessed and cheerful!

我们自己就找到过他，离家好几英里，他很镇定，也很高兴！

Mary had never possessed an animal pet of her own and had always thought she should like one.

玛丽从未有过自己的动物宠物，她总是想要一只。

An unusual quiet possessed the village, although it was ordinarily quiet enough, in all conscience.

村子里有一种异乎寻常的安静，虽说实话，它平时也挺安静的。

This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed.

这是因为最小的那一小块也具有和整面镜子同样的力量。

The other islands, which emerged via geological processes such as volcanism, possessed no terrestrial life.

其他岛屿是通过如火山作用的地质作用形成的，没有陆地生命。

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

一个多年前藏有少量毒品的妇女是否应该永远不能获得护士执照？

For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles: "It is man, real, living man who does all that."

对他们来说，历史是无辜的，它没有带来巨大的财富，也没有发动战争：“这一切都是人，真实的、活生生的人带来的。”

They were sons of the local clergy, of the officers at the Depot, and of such manufacturers or men of business as the old town possessed.

他们是当地神职人员的儿子，是车站官员的儿子，也是老城区的制造商或商人的儿子。

While it is true that the olfactory powers of humans are nothing like as fine as those possessed by certain animals, they are still remarkably acute.

虽然人类的嗅觉能力确实不如某些动物灵敏，但也是非常敏锐的。