He says, "I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are."

他说我相信我们所称作的,关于魔法的实践和哲学，我认为那是对灵魂的召唤，尽管我并不知道它们是什么“

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Should we say of somebody who's fainted or knows that they're subject to fainting spells, they never actually believe that they pass out?

我们该说那些昏倒了,或者是中了昏迷魔法的人，不会相信自己昏倒了吗？

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The person to ask is a magician, somebody whose profession it is to fool people and make it look like they can do things with magic.

你要问的是魔术师,他们的职业就是愚弄别人,让人相信他们有魔法

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