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A magician is someone who performs tricks that look impossible - making things disappear, pulling a rabbit out of a hat, that kind of show. In old stories, a magician is a person with real magic powers, like a wizard. People also say someone is 'a magician' when they're amazingly good at something, even though no real magic is involved - 'she's a magician with a needle and thread.'
魔術師；(故事裡的)法師、術士
組成magic + -ian (this ending means 'a person who does this', like in musician or historian)
同家族的字
- magicmagician is simply 'a person who does magic'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
magiciannoun/məˈd͡ʒɪʃən/
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A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
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derogatoryA spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.
- The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
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A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
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An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
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A person who astounds; an enigma.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。