Paul Simon,who won the first Gershwin Prize in two thousand seven, performed "If It's Magic."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

It's magical.It's sorcery to take an ore and convert it to metal. It's magic. It still amazes me today.

非常神奇，采取矿石并将其转变为,金属非常神奇，我现在仍然很吃惊。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He is simply talking about the parameters of the world he has brought into being. Sidney thinks of it as a kind of magic.

他只是提到了自己造的那个世界的特性,西德尼把这看作是一场魔术。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's the magic of movie making. It was a lot easier to understand than I ever thought it would be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

So I haven't done magic, I've given you a really fast way to solve a knapsack problem, but it's still exponential deep down in its heart, in something.

所以我并没有施魔法，我已经告诉了你,一种快速解决背包问题的方法了,但是某些方面它的核心仍然是指数增长的。

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"It is not a magic bullet, but it will at least force the Iranians to think twice about continuing to flout the will of the international community.,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

It works its magic, again, through purely instrumental means, so we can't really call those songs, and this puzzled me.

纯器乐的演奏方式,容我重申,能产生神奇的效果,所以我们其实不能把器乐称为歌曲,这让我很困惑

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"When you have your own secret language, that's what makes it magic."

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

They're the magic nutrient books: carbohydrates, fat, whatever it happens to be, that's one theme you could follow.

它们是些神奇的营养学书籍,碳水化合物,脂肪,或者其它东西,都可以成为著书的主题

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It seems like magic that a fleshy lump of gray, disgusting meat can give rise to these feelings.

这就像魔术一样,一堆灰色的,恶心的肉团,居然能产生如此丰富的情感

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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，“

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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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You can square this guy and add it to the square of this guy and you will find, using the magic of trigonometry, that this is true.

你可以把这两个式子平方相加,再用一下三角函数的性质,你会发现这是正确的

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It occurred to me it'd be a great magic trick if I then appeared in back.

如果我突然在后排出现,那就是非常精彩的魔术了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

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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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