| 单词 | magic |
| 释义 | mag·ic I. 1. a. b. magics plural < in their crafts, their dances, their rituals of harvest, their local magics for comfort and ease — Waldo Frank > < masters of poems and small magics who could make … spells and runes — Leah B. Drake > 2. a. < a thinker who proposed to test men and measures by the magic of sincerity — V.L.Parrington > < he was our leader and our magic — Ralph Ellison > < our dynamic economy that uses so completely the magic of mass production — P.M.Mazur > b. < all the mystery, magic and romance which belong to royalty alone — J.E.P.Grigg > < the lake with its gray melancholy, its brooding magic of an untouched world — Anita Leslie > < the right word gives us a sense of mystery and magic — C.S.Kilby > 3. < entertained with acts of jugglery and magic > Synonyms: < magic, the attempt of man to govern the forces of nature directly, by means of a special lore — C.S.Coon > < magic may be loosely defined as an endeavor through utterance of set words, or the performance of set acts, to control or bend the powers of the world to man's will — J.B.Noss > < words when used with the gift of magic can seduce a reader into belief that has no roots in reality — Rose Feld > witchcraft and witchery, often applicable to deeds of women rather than men, apply to doings of witches, the former suggesting use, usually malevolent, of spells, enchantments, and guile, the latter suggesting enchanting allure < thus with witchraft I am crowned and wrapped in marvels round and round — Elinor Wylie > < the witchery of the soft blue sky — William Wordsworth > < the witchery of legend and romance — Ben Riker > wizardry, usually used of men's acts or accomplishments, suggests power to enchant with or as if with supernatural skill, power, or craft < the wizardry of my past wonder, the enchantment of romance — John Galsworthy > < the museum staff's wizardry at exhibit making — W.C.Fitzgibbon > sorcery suggests use of incantation, charm, or spell to produce an effect, often harmful < there was a highly institutionalized means of covert aggression at the disposal of the Indians. This was sorcery — A.I.Hallowell > < the storyteller's sorcery of catapulting historical datum into dramatic detail — Frederic Morton > thaumaturgy is applicable to any performance of miracles, especially by incantation < who see thaumaturgy in all that Jesus did — Matthew Arnold > alchemy may apply to transmutation of substances according to the secret laws of early chemical inquiry or to similar processes < called alchemy, an attempt to transmute other metals into gold, to discover the elixir of life — Rumer Godden > < the alchemy of moonlight turned all the jungle to perfect growth, growth at rest — William Beebe > II. 1. < the witch doctor is there to give them some magic medicine to drink — J.G.Frazer > < engravings on harpoons and awls … may have been magic signs, protective against adverse influence — Hugo Obermaler > 2. a. < with this magic piece of paper, was free to go as I could — W.G.Shepherd > < the popular impression that a magic method has been invented for mastering a strange language in six weeks — F.N.Robinson > < a man who really had the magic touch — Leonard Bernstein > b. < it was the most magic moment of the day … full of meaning and loveliness — Olive Johnson > III. < the light of those autumn days was magicked — Hervey Allen > < had magicked them free of their prison — Pamela Frankau > |
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