I got hooked on magic at the store and never used the cards — I was more of a practical joker than a troublemaker.

在那里，我迷上了店里的魔术，却一次也没用过那副牌---比起惹是生非，我更多只是爱恶作剧。

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And he was so engrossed in the Kabuki of his work that it occurred to me how easy a mark he might make for a practical joker tying shoelaces together.

他是如此地专注自己的工作，这让我突然想到把鞋带绑到一起的恶作剧者要想成功会是多么简单。

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The boldest advance came in the 17th-century, when Henry Winstanley, an eccentric inventor and practical joker (he had chairs in his house that flew up in the air), took it upon himself to build a lighthouse on the lethal Eddystone Rock, 14 miles from the English port of Plymouth.

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