All this was supposed to work like magic.

这一切应该魔法般地起作用。

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A passage was cleared through the crowd like magic.

好像有一股神奇的力量在人群中间开出了一条通道。

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Sometimes modern medicine works like magic.

有时现代医学像魔术一样有效。

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He is like a person who does magic tricks.

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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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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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They would have killed the person as a witch because the computer would look like magic.

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It was like magic, like he could hit any pitch, any way, anywhere he chose.

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To take a simple secret and perform it in a way that looks like magic is extremely difficult.

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