abracadabra
abracadabra
exclamation
exclamation
- a word said by conjurors when performing a magic trick
（魔术师变魔术时念的）咒语
- [mass noun](informal)the implausibly easy performance of difficult feats
(非正式)（对困难事情的）一蹴而就（或变魔术般的完成）
the creation of profits was a marvellous bit of abracadabra.
利润的创造就是一手奇妙的魔术。
■language used to give the impression of arcane knowledge or power
符咒；胡言乱语
I get so fed up with all the mumbo-jumbo and abracadabra.
我听够了所有这些胡言乱语和鬼话。
- late 17th cent. (as a mystical word engraved and used as a charm to ward off illness): from Latin, first recorded in a 2nd-cent. poem by Q. Serenus Sammonicus, from a Greek base
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