《哈利•波特與魔法石》（精講之一）
[ 2007-04-29 17:07 ]
影片對白 I'm Harry. Harry Potter.
小編評語
這部電影將兒童的幻想以逼真而又夢幻的形式呈現出來，滿足了孩子們的想象，也圓了成人們的夢。
考考你 現學現賣
4. Hang around
意思是"Spend time idly, loiter"，例如：Every afternoon they could be found hanging
around the mall.
5. Pleasure
"幸會"，和 nice to meet you 意思一樣，只不過更正式一些。從Hermione
的這幾句談話中，我們就可以看出她是一個勤奮好學、受過良好家庭教育的人。
文化面面觀
什么是魔法 About
magic
 Magic, in religion and superstition, the practice
of manipulating and controlling the course of nature by preternatural means.
Magic is based upon the belief that the universe is populated by unseen forces
or spirits that permeate all things. Because these supernatural forces are
thought to govern the course of natural events, control of these forces gives
humans control over nature. The practice of magic is held to depend on the
proper use of both the ritual and the spell. The spell, or incantation, is the
core of the magical ceremony; it unlocks the full power of the ritual. The
practice of magic, in seeking its desired end, may combines within its scope
elements of religion and science. In alchemy, for example, the process of
transmuting a base metal into gold requires precise weights and volumes of
acids, bases, and catalysts as well as the reciting of holy passages and
prayers.
 Anthropologists often distinguish between two
forms of magic, the sympathetic and the contiguous. Sympathetic magic works on
the principle that like produces like. The Ojibwa of North America would make a
wooden image of an enemy and then stick pins into it. Because the doll
represented the enemy, harm done to the doll was believed to harm the enemy.
Contiguous magic operates on the belief that things that have been in contact
will continue to act on each other after the physical contact has ceased. The
aborigines of Australia believe that they can lame a person by placing sharp
pieces of quartz, glass, bone, or charcoal in that person's footprints.
Sometimes both sympathetic and contiguous magic are used in conjunction; certain
African tribespeople will build a clay effigy around nail clippings, hairs, or
bits of cloth belonging to the enemy and roast the completed image slowly in a
fire.
Not all magic is performed in order to harm or destroy, and for this reason a
distinction is made between black magic and white magic. White magic is
characterized by those rites and spells designed to produce beneficial effects
for the community (see fertility rites) or for the individual, particularly in
those cases where an illness is considered to be the result of evil demons or of
black magic.
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