We shouted prayers to the Maker and deflected what magic we could, but as we fought, the creature fought harder.

我们一边尽力偏转向我们射来的魔法，一边大声地向造物主祈祷，但是我们越是抵抗，那个生物的攻势就越是可怕。

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Today we enter a world of Christmas magic, snowflakes,sweets and sugarplum fairies.

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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

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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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Price rationing facilitates this and as competitive markets work their magic we notice that quantities and quality are both robust.

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And the theater is one kind of magic we all believe in.

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But it was basically a muddy, touristy mess, with underwhelming music and not a hint of the magic we had naively hoped for.

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