用法学习: 1. carpe diem [ˌkɑ:peɪ ˈdi:əm] 享受现在, 活在当下, 及时行乐 Seize the day, make the most of today, enjoy the present. carpe diem cras seize the day tomorrow, make the most of tomorrow. the world is one's oyster I. 世界是你的, 世界在你掌控. All opportunities are open to someone, the world is theirs. II. 抓住机会. In order to achieve something in this world, one has to grab the opportunity. the world is one's lobster (UK, humorous) intentional misrendering of the proverb "the world is one's oyster". her indoors 贱内, 内当家的. (UK) one's wife, especially a domineering one. One's wife. The wife as referred to by her husband to his friends. Popularized by Arthur Daley in British TV series 'Minder'. I've just bought a present for her indoors, it's our anniversary. I was taking her indoors out for a day at the zoo.
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关于魔术: 1. Magic or sorcery(paranormal)魔法(魔术是stage magic)( [ˈsɔ:(r)səri] magic done with the help of evil spirits. Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.) is an attempt to understand, experience and influence the world using rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language. Modern Western magicians魔法师 generally state magic's primary purpose to be personal spiritual growth. Modern theories of magic may see it as the result of a universal sympathy ( sympathy I. [uncountable] a natural feeling of kindness and understanding that you have for someone who is experiencing something very unpleasant. The film describes, with considerable sympathy, the problems faced by economic migrants. It's his own fault, so he'll get no sympathy from me. have/feel sympathy (for): We all have great sympathy for the victims of the flood. II. [uncountable] 同情支持. 认同, 同感. 支持. 赞同. agreement with, or support of, a group, idea, plan etc. sympathy with/for: Do you have any sympathy with his point of view? Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas. be out of/in sympathy with someone/something: The school should be entirely in sympathy with these aims. a. sympathies [plural] support or approval for ideas, beliefs, or people. Journalists with left-wing sympathies. someone's sympathies lie with someone: Their sympathies automatically lay with Britain's enemies. extend/offer your sympathy/sympathies formal to tell someone that you are sorry when someone close to them has died. I am writing to extend my deepest sympathies to you and your family. in sympathy 同时, 同步 if two things happen in sympathy, they happen at the same time or in a similar way. tea and sympathy British support and kindness that you provide for someone who is upset or in trouble. I just need a bit of tea and sympathy right now. sympathy card a card that you send to say you are sorry that someone has died. sympathy strike an occasion when workers stop working as a protest to show their support for another group of workers who have gone on strike. someone's heart/sympathy/thoughts go out to someone used for saying that someone is sympathetic to someone who is in a difficult situation. Our thoughts go out to the victims of yesterday's earthquake.) where some act can produce a result somewhere else, or as a collaboration with spirits who cause the effect. The belief in and the practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important religious and medicinal role in many cultures today. Magic is often viewed with suspicion by the wider community, and is sometimes practiced in isolation and secrecy. A magician is any practitioner of magic, even if they are specialists or common practitioners who do not consider themselves to be magicians. The possession of magical knowledge alone may be insufficient to grant magical power魔力; often a person must also possess certain magical objects, traits or life experiences in order to be a magician. A variety of personal traits may be credited with giving magical power, and frequently they are associated with an unusual birth into the world. Magical thinking魔力思想 is the attribution of causal relationships between actions and events where scientific consensus says that there are none. In religion, folk religion, and superstition beliefs, the correlation posited is often between religious ritual, prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense. Magical thinking may lead people to believe that their thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that thinking something corresponds with doing it. It is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena (coincidence) between acts and events. "Quasi-magical thinking" describes "cases in which people act as if they erroneously believe that their action influences the outcome, even though they do not really hold that belief". 2. Magic in fiction is the endowing of fictional characters or objects with magical powers. Such magic often serves as a plot device, being the source of magical artifacts and their quests. Magic has long been a component of fantasy fiction, where it has been a mainstay 常见的东西 from the days of Homer and Apuleius, down through the tales of the Holy Grail, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and to more contemporary authors from J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis to Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, J.K. Rowling or Mercedes Lackey. 3. Magic (sometimes referred to as stage magic魔术 to distinguish it from paranormal or ritual magic魔法) is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means. These feats are called magic tricks, effects or illusions. A professional who performs such illusions is called a stage magician 魔术师 or an illusionist. Some performers may also be referred to by names reflecting the type of magical effects they present, such as prestidigitators, conjurors, hypnotists, mentalists, or escapologists. 4. Watch his high-magical ( White magic白巫术 has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for good做好事 and selfless purposes. With respect to the philosophy of left-hand path and right-hand path, white magic is the benevolent仁慈的, 好心的, 善良的 counterpart of malicious恶意的, 邪恶的 black magic黑巫术. Because of its ties to traditional pagan nature worship, white magic is often also referred to as "natural magic". Ceremonial magic or ritual magic登台做法, 法术, also referred to as high magic and as learned magic
in some cases, is a broad term used in the context of Hermeticism or
Western esotericism to encompass a wide variety of long, elaborate, and
complex rituals of magic. It is named as such because the works included
are characterized by ceremony and myriad necessary accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an extension of ritual magic, and in most cases synonymous with it. ) transformation 蜕变 from sexy young man into cute high school girl below! 5. Hoodoo, also known as "conjure" and sometimes confused with "voodoo", is a traditional African-American folk spirituality that developed from a number of West African, Native American and European spiritual traditions. Mojo [ˈmoudʒou] 一般是一个格子布做的的袋子, in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo, is an amulet ( amulet [ˈæmjulət] 驱鬼符, 护身符 a small object that some people wear around their neck as a protection against evil, bad luck, disease etc. wiki: An amulet (Latin amuletum) can be any object but its most important characteristic is its alleged power to protect its owner from danger or harm. Amulets are different from talismans as a talisman is believed to bring luck or some other benefit, though it can offer protection as well. Amulets are often confused with pendants—charms that hang from necklaces—any given pendant may indeed be an amulet, but so may any other charm which purports to protect its owner from danger. talismans [ˈtælɪzmən] 好运符 an object that someone believes has special powers, especially the power to protect them from bad things. wiki: A talisman is an object which is believed to contain certain magical or sacramental properties which would provide good luck for the possessor or possibly offer protection from evil or harm. Amulets and talismans are often considered interchangeable despite their differences. For example, the amulet is an object with natural magical properties, whereas a talisman must be charged with magical powers加持 by a creator; it is this act of consecration or "charging"加持, 开光 that gives the talisman its alleged magical powers. The talisman is always made for a definite reason whilst an amulet can be used for generic purposes such as averting evil or attracting good luck. talisman和amulet的区别: 二者一般可以互用. 但是一般来讲, amulet是通用的各种功能都有的, 而talisman是有单一目的的, amulet是天生具备能力的, talisman需要加持或者开光的. consecrate[ˈkonsɪˌkreɪt] 开光, 加持 to perform a religious ceremony in order to make a place or a thing holy. consecrated ground. II. to perform a religious ceremony in order to make someone a priest, bishop, king, or queen. consecration [ˌkɒnsɪˈkreɪʃ(ə)n] the consecration of the bread and wine. pendant [ˈpendənt] a piece of jewellery that hangs from a chain around your neck. A pendant (from Old French) word "pendre" and the Latin word "pendere" which means "to hang down" is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, when the ensemble may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. One of the earliest types of bodily adornment is the pendant. Primeval man liked to put a tiny hole in a beautiful rock and slip a string usually made of grass or vine so it could be hung around the neck. Shells and other indigenous materials could also be used. Pendants can have several functions, which may be combined: Award (i.e., Scouting Ireland Chief Scout's Award, Order of CúChulainn); Identification (i.e., religious symbols, sexual symbols, symbols of rock bands); Ornamentation; Ostentation (i.e., jewels). Protection (i.e., amulets, religious symbols); Self-affirmation (i.e., initials, names). The many specialized types of pendants include lockets which open, often to reveal an image, and pendilia, which hang from larger objects of metalwork. ) consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag," or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body. Alternative American names for the mojo bag include hand, mojo hand, conjure hand, lucky hand, conjure bag, trick bag, root bag, toby, jomo, and gris-gris bag. Fixing and feeding a mojo hand: There is a process to fixing a proper mojo. A ritual must be put in place in order to successfully prepare a mojo by being filled and awakened to life. This can be done by smoking incense and candles, or breathed upon to bring it to life. Prayers may be said, and other methods may be used to accomplish this essential step. Once prepared, the mojo is "dressed" or "fed" with a liquid such as alcohol, perfume, water, or bodily fluids. The reason why it is said to feed the mojo to keep it working is because it is alive with spirit. One story from the work entitled From My People describes a slave who went out and sought a mojo conjurer that gave him a mojo to run away from home. The story describes the slave's mojo as fixing him into many formations, and he ultimately dies because he misuses its power. Had he fixed and believed in the specific mojo himself, he may have escaped the plantation alive... Mojos are traditionally made for an individual, and so must be concealed on the person at all times. Men usually keep the trinkets hidden in the pants pocket, while women are more prone to clip it 卡起来 to the brassiere. They are also commonly pinned 别在 to clothes below the waist. Depending on the type of mojo, the hiding place will be crucial to its success, as those who make conjure bags to carry love spells sometimes specify that the mojo must be worn next to the skin贴肤戴着. The purpose of hoodoo is to allow people access to supernatural forces to improve their daily lives. Hoodoo helps people attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. As in many other spiritual and medical folk practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions and bodily fluids, especially menstrual blood, urine, saliva, and semen. Contact with ancestors or other spirits of the dead is an important practice within the conjure tradition, and the recitation of Psalms from the Bible is also considered spiritually influential in hoodoo. Due to hoodoo's great emphasis on an individual's spiritual power to effect desired change in the course of events, hoodoo's principles are believed to be accessible for use by any individual of faith. Hoodoo practice does not require a formally designated minister. Home-made potions and charms 香囊, 吉祥符 form the basis of much rural hoodoo, but there are also some successful commercial companies selling various hoodoo products to urban and town practitioners. These are generally called spiritual supplies, and they include herbs, roots, minerals, candles, incense, oils, glitter, floor washes, sachet powders, bath crystals, icons, aerosols, and colognes.
