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Marcus has been sitting at the table the entire time, holding the wallet and watching the performance.
馬庫斯一直坐在桌邊，拿著錢包觀看演出。
I point to the wallet.
我指著錢包。
"Marcus, could you stand up for a second?"
“馬庫斯，你能站起來一下嗎?”
He stands. I ask him to hold the wallet up above his head so everyone can see, and he does.
他站了起來，我讓他把錢包舉過頭頂，這樣每個人都能看到，他照做了。
"You have been holding my wallet the entire time. Open it and look inside. You should find a lottery ticket. Take it out."
“你一直拿著我的錢包，打開看看，你應該會發現有張彩票，把它拿出來。”
Marcus opens the wallet and removes the lottery ticket.
馬庫斯打開錢包，拿出彩票。
"This isn't a winning ticket. I'm not a millionaire. But I want you to look at the numbers.
“這不是一張中獎的彩票，我不是百萬富翁，但是我想讓你們看看這些數字。
I'm going to hand you the microphone. Read them out loud."
我把話筒遞給你，大聲讀出來。”
I am watching his face now, waiting for him to see it.
我現在看著他的臉，等著他看到彩票上的數字。
"Oh," he says quietly. "Oh no." He looks at me. His eyes are very wide.He looks back at the lottery ticket.
“哦，”他平靜地說。“哦，不”。他看著我，睜大了眼睛，回頭看了看彩票。
"Read the numbers, Marcus."
“讀出數字，馬庫斯。”
Marcus raises the microphone.
馬庫斯舉起麥克風。
"Sixteen, thirty-two, nine, forty-three, eleven, and fourteen."
“16，32，9，43，11，14。”
The room explodes. People are on their feet, screaming and jumping and turning to one another.
房間里炸開了，人們都站起來，尖叫著，跳躍著，轉向彼此。
Someone runs for the exit, knocking over a table. Jessica has her hands on her face, her mouth open.
有人跑向出口，撞倒了一張桌子。杰西卡把手放在臉上，張開嘴。
Marcus has dropped the microphone. He is reading the ticket over and over again, shaking his head and laughing.
馬庫斯的麥克風掉了。他一遍又一遍地看著彩票，邊搖頭邊笑。
I want you to see his face. I want you to see the joy, the open, unaffected joy.
我想讓你看看他的臉。我想讓你看到那種敞開心扉、真摯的快樂。
It's the kind of joy that reminds you for a moment that when the weight of worry, of pain, of anxiety, of the world, has gone, the face that shines without it is extraordinary.
這種快樂會提醒你，憂慮、痛苦、焦慮和世界的重壓消失時神采奕奕的臉是非凡特別的。
Magicians get to see people at their very best,
魔術師能看到人們最好的一面，
and in this transformation you can see through the illusion what can only be described as real, actual magic.
在這種轉變中，你可以看到錯覺，這種錯覺只能用真實的魔法來形容。
