He is like a person who does magic tricks.

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If babies are like--If babies also think it shouldn't happen, they might look longer, and essentially what happens is scientists do magic tricks to explore this very thing.

如果婴儿也觉得该事物出乎意料,那么他们会注视的更久,基本上科学家们,就是通过魔术技巧来进行研究

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I'm not cheating anybody? No magic tricks here.

我没骗你们吧

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