每日英语阅读：探索书籍带来的奇妙冒险

名词奇遇; 冒险经历; 冒险活动

1. 冒险；冒险经历；奇遇
If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.

e.g. I set off for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year.
新年第一天，我在美国开始了一次新的冒险。

2. 冒险的刺激；大胆的开拓；勇敢的闯荡
Adventure is excitement and willingness to do new, unusual, or rather dangerous things.

e.g. Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure.
他们的文化背景赋予了他们一种冒险精神。
e.g. ...a feeling of adventure and excitement.
惊险刺激的感觉

3. 去（某地）探险
If you adventure somewhere, you go somewhere new, unusual, and exciting.

e.g. The group has adventured as far as the Austrian alps.
该队伍的探险之旅远至奥地利的阿尔卑斯山。

名词魔法; 巫术; 戏法; 不可思议的魔力

形容词魔术的; 幻术的; 不可思议的; 有奇异魔力的

动词用魔法变出; 用魔法摆脱; 用魔法得到; 使中邪

1. 魔法;巫术;法术
Magic is the power to use supernatural forces to make impossible things happen, such as making people disappear or controlling events in nature.

e.g. They believe in magic...
他们相信巫术。
e.g. ...the use of magic to combat any adverse powers or influences...
利用法术与强敌或敌对势力作战

2. 魔术;魔法
You can use magic when you are referring to an event that is so wonderful, strange, or unexpected that it seems as if supernatural powers have caused it. You can also say that something happens as if by magic or like magic .

e.g. All this was supposed to work magic...
这一切被认为会创造奇迹。
e.g. The picture will now appear, as if by magic!
这幅画立刻就会出现，好像变魔术一般！

3. (似)用魔法变成的;(似)用魔术变出的
You use magic to describe something that does things, or appears to do things, by magic.

e.g. So it's a magic potion?
那么，这是个神药？
e.g. ...the magic ingredient that helps to keep skin looking smooth.
有助于保持肌肤光滑的奇效成分

4. 魔术;戏法
Magic is the art and skill of performing mysterious tricks to entertain people, for example by making things appear and disappear.

e.g. His secret hobby: performing magic tricks.
他私底下有变戏法的嗜好。

5. 魅力;魔力;神奇(性)
If you refer to the magic of something, you mean that it has a special mysterious quality which makes it seem wonderful and exciting to you and which makes you feel happy.

e.g. 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。
e.g. There can be a magic about love that defies all explanation...
爱情的魔力也许根本无法解释。

6. （令人钦佩的）特殊才能，能力
If you refer to a person's magic, you mean a special talent or ability that they have, which you admire or consider very impressive.

e.g. The fighter believes he can still regain some of his old magic.
这位斗士相信自己仍然可以恢复从前的一些魔力。

7. （数目、词语等）重要的，关键的，举足轻重的
You can use expressions such as the magic number and the magic word to indicate that a number or word is the one which is significant or desirable in a particular situation.

e.g. ...their quest to gain the magic number of 270 electoral votes on Election Day.
在大选之日他们对胜败攸关的270张选票的争取
e.g. ...the magic word that opened doors onto private worlds.
开启私人世界的咒语

8. 立见奇效的;立竿见影的
Magic is used in expressions such as there is no magic formula and there is no magic solution to say that someone will have to make an effort to solve a problem, because it will not solve itself.

e.g. There is no magic formula for producing winning products...
获奖电影的制作没有捷径可取。
e.g. There is no magic cure.
灵丹妙药并不存在。

9. 极好的;了不起的;非常棒的
If you say that something is magic, you think it is very good or enjoyable.

e.g. It was magic—one of the best days of my life.
真是太棒了——这是我生命中最美好的一天。