【句子】This is a lot of hocus-pocus! I can't believe I bought a coffee cake over this! 【ModernFamilyS3E11】

【发音技巧】This is a两处连读；lot of连读+闪音；can’t believe失去爆破；bought a连读+闪音；

【翻译】太离谱了！难以置信我居然买了一个咖啡蛋糕用在这么一个可笑的场合！

今天要学习的表达是：hocus-pocus，

这个词读起来真有意思，明显押上了尾韵。

这个词平时是魔术师变魔术的时候说的，但它也可以用来指那些“毫无根据的事情、没谱的事儿；耍弄别人的事情；”

an activity or a belief that you think has no value and is intended to trick people

eg: So much of what politicians say is just hocus-pocus.

政客们说的很多话，都是骗人的鬼话。

eg: I still think that horoscopes are a load of hocus-pocus.

我还是觉得星座那一套，完全就是骗人的。

eg: The people were not deceived by the political hocus-pocus of the prospective candidate.

人们没有被准候选人的政治把戏所欺骗。

eg: It is unlikely he would have mistaken hocus-pocus for genuine knowledge.

他不太可能会把骗人的把戏当作是真正的知识。

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Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.

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