Today we know hypnotic control can be attained without the aid of burning glances, mysterious hand passes or hokedup histrionics borrowed from the performances of stage magicians

今天,我们都知道催眠术已不再需要用那种咄咄逼人的凝目而视,那种神秘的触摸或从舞台魔术师学来的那种拼凑起来的表演程式了。

Magicians often perform tricks such as pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

魔术师常常变从帽子抓出兔子的戏法。

The Queen conferred knighthood s on two magicians .

女王以骑士的称号授予两个魔术家.

Every juggler has his own tricks. (或:Many are the magicians , but each has his own tricks.)

戏法人人会变,各有巧妙不同。

||1: IN “FANTASIA”, Walt Disney's 1940 film of musically inspired animations, each piece begins and ends in the same way, with the silhouetted figure of Leopold Stokowski, a British conductor who died in 1977. ||2: He stands alone against a dark red background while the mysterious movements of his hands conjure the music in and out of being. ||3: “Fantasia” was hugely popular, and made a notable contribution to cultivating a wider appreciation of classical music. ||4: But it also unwittingly peddled the still pervasive myth that conductors are, in effect, magicians —sorcerers who single-handedly extract waves of finely variegated sound out of thin air.

||1:1940年沃特·迪士尼拍摄了音乐动画“幻想曲”，每一段的开始和结束都是利奥波德·斯托科夫斯基的剪影。而这位英国指挥家于1977年去世。||2:他独站在深红色背景前，手上的动作充满了神秘色彩，音乐便随着动作此起彼伏。||3:“幻想曲”获得了巨大的成功，并且它对古典音乐新诠释所做出的贡献也非同一般。||4:但它也无意中增加了指挥家的神秘色彩，时至今日人们仍然觉得不可思议，好像他们就是魔术师——独自一人就凭空变出变幻莫测的美妙声音。

A statement from Daniels’ publicist said in February，“We can confirm that one of our greatest magicians and entertainers of all times, Paul Daniels，

其经纪人在2月份时发表声明称：“很不幸，我们伟大的魔术师及艺人——保罗·丹尼尔斯

In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt.

到了早晨，法老心里不安，就差人召了埃及所有的术士和博士来；

They are almost relations of his, if all people say concerning the parentage of magicians be true.

对于他来说，异界生物如同亲属——假如关于魔法师出身的说法属实的话。

The magicians who have pulled off this double trick are Thornton Greenland of University College, London, and his colleagues.

而攻克该双重难题的“魔术师”，则是来自伦敦大学学院的桑顿•格陵兰和他的同事。

Professor Newman also counters that alchemists of the time were more similar to chemists than wannabe magicians .

教授纽曼也反驳道，那个时代的炼金术士更类似于化学家而非自封的魔法师。

Magicians perform astounding feats that seem to go against logic1.

魔术师们令人啧啧称奇的戏法似乎有违逻辑。

Central bankers are not magicians . Don't count on them to conjure up remedies if the rich economies flag

央行不是魔术师，不要指望它们能用良方解决富国经济疲软的顽症

Artists aren't magicians . There's no penalty for revealing your secrets.

艺术家不是魔术师，揭秘不会受到惩罚。

So we re kind of meta-magicians , you might say.

因此，你可能会说我们有点象魔法师。

Magicians , in particular, face another problem that the chefs do not.

尤其是魔术师，他们面临另一个厨师没有面临的问题。

The story is told by Jacob Loshin, a recent graduate from Yale Law School, in a working paper on how magicians protect their tricks.

这个故事是最近刚从耶鲁大学法学院（YaleLawSchool）毕业的雅各布•洛辛（JacobLoshin）在一篇关于魔术师如何保护他们戏法的论文中讲述的。

Those magicians are a tricky lot, eh?

这些魔术师相当狡猾，是吧？

magicians’ equipment

魔术师用具

International Brotherhood of Magicians

国际魔术师兄弟会