词汇 | conjurer |
释义 | conjurer noun[ C ] (alsoconjuror)uk /ˈkʌn.dʒər.ər/ us /ˈkʌn.dʒɚ.ɚ/ a person who performs magic to entertain people魔术师 Ljupco/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities alchemist clairvoyant coven crone diviner ghostbuster illusionist mage magician mediumship oracle psychic shaman soothsayer sorcerer sorceress spiritual healer visionary wizard wizardly Get me a conjurer, One that can raise a water-devil. In many instances a trained conjurer would be far more apt to detect fraud than a trained scientist. The best conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs. The whole point of being a conjurer is that you won't explain a thing that has happened. Then, having given the necessary directions, the conjurer went his way. Examples of conjurerconjurer It is like watching a slow motion picture of a conjurer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His role has been that of a conjurer concealing by illusion what is really happening to the defence effort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He reminds me of a conjurer who mixes a number of ingredients together and then produces quite different articles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conjurer brought down a hammer with some force on the handkerchief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was like the exercise of skill when the conjurer offers you a card. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regard that and have regarded it from the first as so much conjurer's patter, because it has no relation whatever to the facts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children's conjurer has tricks and illusions that convince those in the audience behind him who desperately want to be convinced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He produced that piece of information like a conjurer producing a rabbit from a hat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To get over these difficulties you must either be a conjurer or supernatural. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My role is not that of a conjurer who can produce rabbits out of a hat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In our youth we have seen a conjurer take three interlocking steel rings, and, with the aid of a magic wand and with great dexterity, make them one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The money which he understood to have been there was not there at all, because what the conjurer put in with one hand he took out with the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They see men and women, many of whom are in any case guaranteed to disappear off the stage like conjurers' assistants with one wave of the executive wand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know how it is done, but with a really good conjurer you always do take the card he is trying to offer you. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Few people are more popular as entertainers than conjurers, and people who can work miracles of this kind are likely to be more popular than otherwise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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