访谈录 2011-06-03&06-05 魔术师兰斯·伯顿专访

 You wanna see a trick.

 

Yeah, what about a usual one?.

 

One for you?

 

Yeah？

 

I’ll do it for you.

 

Yeah.

 

And I'll do one for the people.

 

Yeah, OK, whatever. I considered myself oneof the people.

 

You’re one of the people?

 

OK

 

Then You'll be their representative.

 

Yes, all right.

 

I know you like card tricks I've done onthe show which is very important.

 

Yeah, yeah, very well.

 

If you can just hold both hands out like this and make a little table about 6 to 8inches above that. Perfect! All right, Just want to you hold that.

 

Perfect. Now I want to you to imagine thatthese four cards are the four walls to you house. Now, if I were to ask you,what was on the walls? I’ll bet¹ you can tell me. But if I ask you, what was onthe ceiling of your house? What would you say?

 

Beams²?

 

And maybe on the beams where a few…

 

Spiderwebs

 

Spiderwebs! Well, I'm not saying you're badhousekeeper. Well, I'm just saying, you know, that happens. Now, we want to getrid of the spiderwebs.

 

All right.

 

You know how to do that, don't you?

 

Take dust?

 

Dust?

 

Yeah

 

This is the magic way. Take this hand,slowly wave it over the cards.

 

Er, will I say something magic?

 

You can make magic noises if you want.

 

I’m feeling it. I’m feeling it.

 

I’m not done

 

OK, I'm done

 

Alright, very good. Let's see. Yes?

 

The webs are gone.

 

Wow, look at that.

 

But now you know where you have spiderwebs,you have spiders. Now we want to get rid of spiders. But we don't want to usechemicals. That’s bad for the environment. So you have to make spiders justdisappear. Slowly wave both hands over the cards, both hands.

 

Magic noise?

 

You're pretty good. Are you OK?

 

Yeah, I'm alright.

1 bet   

v.打赌，以(与)...打赌；n.赌注，赌金；打赌

参考例句：

• I bet you can't do this puzzle.我敢说，你解决不了这个难题。
• I offered to bet with him.我提出与他打赌。

2 beams   

n.梁( beam的名词复数 )；束；1 光线；（电波的）波束v.发出光与热( beam的第三人称单数 )；面露喜色；播送；1 笑容满面，眉开眼笑 2 发射电波，播送 3 放出束状的光（或热）

参考例句：

• The beams are riddled with woodworm. 这些木梁被蛀虫蛀得都是洞。
• In front were five rooms with painted beams and carved pillars. 正面五间上房，皆是画梁雕栋。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》