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正面 3435.magic
英 ['mædʒɪk]美 ['mædʒɪk]

背面
释义:
n. 巫术;魔法;戏法adj. 不可思议的;有魔力的;魔术的n. (Magic)人名;(英)马吉克
例句:
1. It infected them with some of the magic of a lost age.逝去的岁月让他们平添了几分魅力。

1. Superior => 苏必利尔湖——加拿大第一大湖.2. 苏必利尔湖——加拿大五大湖之首.
magic 魔术,魔力来自拉丁语magus,魔术师,巫师,智者,来自PIE*magh,使有能力,赋予力量,词源同machine,might.引申词义魔术,魔力。该词PIE*magh与PIE*gno(can,know)的区别在于前者的力量偏重于外人赋予,而后者的力量偏重于自身固有。
magicmagic: [14] Greek mágos, a word of Persian origin, meant ‘sorcerer’ (Latin borrowed it as magus, whose plural magi is used in English for the three ‘Wise Men’ who visited the infant Christ). From mágos was derived the adjective magikós. Its use in the phrase magiké tékhnē ‘sorcerer’s art’ led eventually to magiké itself being regarded as a noun, and it passed into English via late Latin magica and Old French magique.=> magimagic (n.)late 14c., "art of influencing events and producing marvels using hidden natural forces," from Old French magique "magic, magical," from Late Latin magice "sorcery, magic," from Greek magike (presumably with tekhne "art"), fem. of magikos "magical," from magos "one of the members of the learned and priestly class," from Old Persian magush, possibly from PIE *magh- (1) "to be able, to have power" (see machine). Transferred sense of "legerdemain, optical illusion, etc." is from 1811. Displaced Old English wiccecræft (see witch); also drycræft, from dry "magician," from Irish drui "priest, magician" (see druid).magic (adj.)late 14c., from Old French magique, from Latin magicus "magic, magical," from Greek magikos, from magike (see magic (n.)). Magic carpet first attested 1816. Magic Marker (1951) is a registered trademark (U.S.) by Speedry Products, Inc., Richmond Hill, N.Y. Magic lantern "optical instrument whereby a magnified image is thrown upon a wall or screen" is 1690s, from Modern Latin laterna magica.magic (v.)1906, from magic (n.)."

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