Along the way, he also came to love magic—not spells and sorcery, but the tricks and illusions of puzzlers and prestidigitators.

在此期间，他还成为了一名魔术爱好者---这无关于迷信的咒语或巫术，而是是钟情于魔术人所玩弄的把戏和错觉。

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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。

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The London-based Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat quoted a source in the country's religious police who said authorities searched Nassar's home and found books on sorcery, a number of talismans and glass bottles filled with liquids supposedly used for the purposes of magic.

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