| 单词 | magic touch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagic touch a. Producing surprising or remarkable results, like those attributed to magic (frequently in magic touch); effecting or permitting change, success, etc., as if by magic. Also: enchanting, delightful. See also magic lantern n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance worthlyeOE mickleeOE greatc1225 right hand?c1225 solemna1387 materialc1475 superior1526 grand1542 weighty1558 main1581 pregnant1591 pregnate1598 materious1611 moliminous1642 momentous1656 magic1696 all-important1748 big1748 eventful1756 colossal1775 bread and butter1822 bada1825 key1832 all-absorbing1834 earth-moving?1834 earth-shaking1835 earth-shatteringa1859 high-ranking1874 beaucoup1917 major league1951 earth-stopping1956 crucial1957 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [adjective] > resembling magic in effect magicala1616 magic1696 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Lanthorn A Magic Lanthorn, a certain small Optical Macheen, that shews by a gloomy Light upon a white Wall, Spectres and Monsters so hideous, that he who knows not the Secret, believes it to be perform'd by Magick Art. 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane i. i. sig. C3v When some skilful Artist strikes the Strings, The magick numbers rouse our sleeping Passions. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 936 Pleas'd that her magic Fame diffusely flies. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 16 The glances of her magic eye, She blends and shifts at will. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 160 Presently, as it were with a magic touch, it started up into a noble size, and distinction indeed! 1826 W. Scott Rev. Life Kemble in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) ii. 22/1 The vain longings which we felt that..the magic curtain [would] once more arise. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 155 The magic music in his heart Beats quick and quicker. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xiii. 198 She who has once been woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transfiguration. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xiv. 224 I requested a waiter..to show us to a private sitting-room. Upon that, he pulled out a napkin, as if it were a magic clue without which he couldn't find the way up-stairs, and led us to the black hole of the establishment. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 71 Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment. 1938 I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure iii. 26 The thing I wanted most was a by-line—that magic inch of print above a story I had written which would identify me as the author of the gem. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 85/2 The magic touch of so much gold so tamely taken. 1986 Observer 17 Aug. 29/1 The gold price has refused—as yet—to break through the ‘magic’ $400-an-ounce barrier that chartists (and gold-bugs) cherish. 1993 Sci. News 30 Oct. 280/2 The magic ingredient? Polyacrylamide (PAM), a long-chain molecule commonly used to clean waste water. < as lemmas |
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