For Julia, who is sitting at a nearby table, the magic often happens when life itself seems un-magical.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He does not emerge from some preexisting realm and therefore he is free of all of the limitations of myth and magic--we'll go through these one by one--but a God whose will is absolute and sovereign. All right?

他不从任何既存的空间而来，因而他不受任何,神话和巫术的控制，他是完全独立和至高无上的,这些我们将一点一点来分析？

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In National Basketball Association play, the Los Angeles Lakers captured their 15th title in 2009, beating the Orlando Magic in the best-of-seven finals in five games.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

and,in a bit of 'movie magic,' the film re-creates 1937 New York in and around a vintage theater on the Isle Of Man in the Irish Sea.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Lyricist Johnny Mercer was one of the world's most prolific composers, turning out more than 1,500 songs, including a classic he co-wrote with Harold Arlen, "That Old Black Magic."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12