One day, a magician came to the man and said to him, "I can make your son happy and turn his frowns into smiles, but you must pay me a great price for telling him the secret."

一天，一个魔术师来到这个人跟前，对他说：“我可以让你的儿子高兴，让他一展愁眉露出微笑，但你必须为告诉他这个秘密付出巨大代价。”

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"They feel like I'm a magician giving away the trade secrets, which I am doing," he says.

“他们感觉我就像出卖了行业秘密的魔术师。”他说。

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So, for example, there's a magician-- The question is not, could I explain to you how the seance manages to do the amazing things that it does?

比如说,有一个魔术师,问题不在于,我能否给你解释通灵任何,做到这些惊人事情的

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So, for example, there's a magician-- The question is not, could I explain to you how the seance manages to do the amazing things that it does?

比如说,有一个魔术师,问题不在于,我能否给你解释通灵任何,做到这些惊人事情的

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There's a magician, I think his name is The Amazing Randi, who has a sort of standing offer; he says, "You show me what happened in the seance or in communication with the dead or what have you, and I'll show you how to do it.

有这样一个魔术师,好像他叫 "令人惊奇"的兰迪,他有一个长期的悬赏,他说,你展示给我看通灵,或如何同死人交流,我就告诉你这是怎么做到的

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"I don't love telling everything, just for the reason of the effect on people -- like when a magician does something, you really don't want to know -- but if it helps an actual photographer to go out and do cool stuff, I'm for it, " he says.

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