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单词 sympathetic magic
释义

magic /majˈik/

noun
  1. The art of producing marvellous results by compelling the aid of spirits, or by using the secret forces of nature, such as the power supposed to reside in certain objects as ‘givers of life’
  2. Enchantment
  3. Sorcery
  4. The art of producing illusions by sleight of hand
  5. A secret or mysterious power over the imagination or will
transitive verb (magˈicking; magˈicked)

To affect or produce by, or as if by, magic

adjective
  1. Relating to, used in, or done by, magic
  2. Causing wonderful or startling results
  3. Marvellous, exciting (informal)
ORIGIN: Gr magikē (technē) magic (art). See magus

magˈical adjective

  1. Relating to magic
  2. Wonderful, enchanting

magˈically adverb

magician /mə-jishˈən/ noun

  1. A person skilled in magic
  2. A wizard or sorcerer
  3. An enchanter
  4. A conjuror
  5. A wonder-worker

magic bullet noun (informal)

A drug, etc, that is capable of destroying bacteria, cancer cells, etc without adversely affecting the host

magic carpet noun

One that, in fairy stories, can transport people magically through the air

magic circle noun

  1. Any privileged group to which many aspire but few are admitted (informal)
  2. See also magic square below

magic eye noun

  1. A miniature cathode-ray tube in a radio receiver which helps in tuning the receiver by indicating, by means of varying areas of luminescence and shadow, the accuracy of the tuning
  2. A lightbeam focused on a photoelectric cell which activates an automatic door, security alarm, etc, when broken

magic lantern noun

An apparatus for projecting pictures on slides onto a screen

Magic Marker® noun

(also without cap or magi-marker) a thick fibre-tip pen used for writing on display boards, etc

magic mushroom noun

Any of various mushrooms, eg Psilocybe mexicana, which contain a hallucinogen

magic number noun

Any number having particular significance in a specific context

magic pyramid noun

A puzzle resembling a Rubik's Cube (qv), but in the shape of a tetrahedron with similarly shaped pieces

magic realism or magical realism noun

A style of art, literature or cinema in which fantastical or surreal events or images are presented in a realistic or everyday context

magic (or magical) realist noun

magic square, magic circle, magic cube, magic cylinder or magic sphere noun

A figure filled with rows of numbers so arranged that the sums of all the rows will be the same, perpendicularly, horizontally or diagonally (as the square formed from the three rows 2, 7, 6; 9, 5, 1; 4, 3, 8)

black magic

The black art, magic by means of evil spirits

natural magic

  1. The art of working wonders by a superior knowledge of the powers of nature
  2. The power of investing a work of art with an atmosphere of imagination
  3. Sleight of hand

sympathetic magic

Magic aiming at the production of effects by mimicry, such as bringing rain by libations, or injuring a person by melting or sticking pins in his or her image

white magic

Magic without the aid of the Devil

sympathy /simˈpə-thi/

noun
  1. Community of feeling
  2. Power of entering into another's feelings or mind
  3. Harmonious understanding
  4. Compassion, pity
  5. Affinity or correlation whereby one thing responds to the action of another or to action upon another
  6. Agreement
  7. (often in pl) a feeling of agreement or support, or an expression of this
ORIGIN: Gr sympatheia, from syn with, and pathos suffering

sympathetˈic adjective

  1. Feeling, inclined to or expressing sympathy
  2. In sympathy
  3. Acting or done in sympathy
  4. Induced by sympathy (as sounds in a resonating body)
  5. Congenial
  6. Compassionate
  7. Of the sympathetic nervous system (see below)
  8. (a Gallicism) able to awake sympathy

sympathetˈical adjective (obsolete)

Sympathetic

sympathetˈically adverb

symˈpathize or symˈpathise intransitive verb

  1. To be in sympathy
  2. To feel with or for another
  3. To be compassionate
  4. To be in accord, correspond
transitive verb (Shakespeare)
  1. To be in sympathy, accord or harmony with
  2. To combine harmoniously
  3. To represent or understand sympathetically
  4. Perh to affect all alike

symˈpathizer or symˈpathiser noun

sympatholytˈic adjective (medicine)

Inhibiting the action of the sympathetic nervous system

noun

A drug which has this effect

sympathomimetˈic adjective (pharmacology)

Mimicking the action of the sympathetic nervous system

noun

A drug which does this

sympathetic ink see under ink

sympathetic magic noun

Magic depending upon a supposed sympathy, eg between a person and his or her name or portrait, between rainfall and libations

sympathetic nervous system noun

  1. A system of nerves supplying the involuntary muscles and glands, esp those originating from the cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord
  2. Sometimes also including those from the brain and the sacral region (the parasympathetic nervous system)

sympathetic string noun

A string on a musical instrument that is not struck itself, but resonates with strings that are actually bowed or plucked

sympathy strike or sympathetic strike noun

A strike in support of other workers, not in furtherance of the strikers' own claims

in sympathy (with)

In agreement (with), in support (of)
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