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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.
作為魔術師，你很早就學會了一個道理，那就是魔術中最神奇的部分沒有什么秘密可言。
The secret is simple and often dull: a hidden piece of tape, a small mirror, a duplicate playing card.
秘密很簡單，通常也很枯燥：一段隱藏的帶子，一面小鏡子，一張復制的撲克牌。
In this case, the secret was a series of covert maneuvers to hide the coin behind my hand in the act of opening it,
在這種情況下，秘訣在于打開硬幣的時候通過一系列的隱秘動作把硬幣藏在手的后面，
a dance of the fingers that I learned so completely I didn't even have to think.
一種手指舞蹈，甚至不用思考我就完全學會了。
I would close my hand, then open it, and the coin would vanish not by skill but by real magic.
合上然后打開手，硬幣就會消失，不是因為技巧，而是真正的魔法。
One day I made the coin vanish on the playground.
有一天我在操場上把硬幣弄消失了。
We had been playing football and were standing by the backstop in the field behind the school.
我們一直在踢足球，站在學校足球場后面的場地里。
A dozen people were watching. I showed the coin to everyone.
有十幾個人在看。我向大家展示硬幣。
Then it disappeared.
然后硬幣就消失了。
The kids screamed. They yelled, laughed, scrambled away.
孩子們尖叫、喊著，大笑著，逃之夭夭。
Everyone went crazy. This was great.
每個人都很著迷，好極了。
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.
這是《魔戒》里的比爾博·巴金斯，生日派對上，他的魔戒戴在手指上然后消失了，嚇到了在場的客人。
The teacher on duty crossed the playground to investigate.
值班老師穿過操場去查看原因。
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,
坦納太太是一個身材瘦削、復仇心重的女人，她在課堂上很強勢，喜歡羞辱別人，手里拿著的碩大無比的塑料高爾夫球桿就像件武器。
slamming it down on the desks of the unruly and uncommitted.
重重地摔在那些不守規矩人的桌子上。
