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One of the lessons you learn very early on as a magician is that the most amazing part of a trick has nothing to do with the secret.
作为魔术师，你很早就学会了一个道理，那就是魔术中最神奇的部分没有什么秘密可言i.~O=3_BHKl3k#(HbK。
The secret is simple and often dull: a hidden piece of tape, a small mirror, a duplicate playing card.
秘密很简单，通常也很枯燥：一段隐藏的带子，一面小镜子，一张复制的扑克牌(%*UYVfjL|%qe#7@。
In this case, the secret was a series of covert maneuvers to hide the coin behind my hand in the act of opening it,
在这种情况下，秘诀在于打开硬币的时候通过一系列的隐秘动作把硬币藏在手的后面，
a dance of the fingers that I learned so completely I didn't even have to think.
一种手指舞蹈，甚至不用思考我就完全学会了9VgQmCSGlH4w8Sl]G=。
I would close my hand, then open it, and the coin would vanish not by skill but by real magic.
合上然后打开手，硬币就会消失，不是因为技巧，而是真正的魔法hb)#8U0mEg6jo!z=4。

One day I made the coin vanish on the playground.
有一天我在操场上把硬币弄消失了OJdbNKjl^a!!!._R@1r。
We had been playing football and were standing by the backstop in the field behind the school.
我们一直在踢足球，站在学校足球场后面的场地里m^8s5w0Escw|WJ9parL。
A dozen people were watching. I showed the coin to everyone.
有十几个人在看CtWjsP[aPi3_4al8HuL)。我向大家展示硬币,&jI=ISnaOZDr.^。
Then it disappeared.
然后硬币就消失了[|M9.Fb0~jQa%GR#t[rp。
The kids screamed. They yelled, laughed, scrambled away.
孩子们尖叫、喊着，大笑着，逃之夭夭1MJOs4=r)]h^Dq。
Everyone went crazy. This was great.
每个人都很着迷，好极了.B-ZUL[F9HoByQ!(Qt。
This was Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings terrifying the guests at his birthday party by putting the One Ring on his finger and vanishing.
这是《魔戒》里的比尔博·巴金斯，生日派对上，他的魔戒戴在手指上然后消失了，吓到了在场的客人kVBf4q8lcLL;K3。
The teacher on duty crossed the playground to investigate.
值班老师穿过操场去查看原因pXDgjLXI4ce%2^ez6[[。
Mrs. Tanner was a wiry, vengeful woman who dominated her classroom with an appetite for humiliation and an oversize plastic golf club she wielded like a weapon,
坦纳太太是一个身材瘦削、复仇心重的女人，她在课堂上很强势，喜欢羞辱别人，手里拿着的硕大无比的塑料高尔夫球杆就像件武器+hteu=ZsF@k^。
slamming it down on the desks of the unruly and uncommitted.
重重地摔在那些不守规矩人的桌子上X2ZpZns_Bd+nrss。

重点讲解

1.scrambled away狼吞虎咽
Downing , too, looked dangers whenever he was got the ball onto his lethal left foot, seeing a free-kick from the edge of the area just scrambled away.
唐宁在他左脚带球的时候也具有很大的威胁jObB,q&+6ez(。从边路起的定位球也扰乱对方kubm0A3w#-(|*b。
2.appetite for 对…的欲望
Exercise will improve your appetite for food.
运动能增进你的食欲gEGA0S]8,X25_。
3.a series of 一系列的；一连串的
There is a series of science and technology on the desk.
案头放着一套科技丛书_qVnC;w+.#W-ST。
4.a piece of 一片，一块
She ripped a piece of cloth in two.
她把一块布撕成两块#,,oFzxdqFc5Gh|;an。

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