Incantation

(noun.) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect.

录入:弗农

• I will teach her to throw spell and incantation over the soldiers of the blessed Temple. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• They all stood in amazement, smiling uncannily, as if the rabbit were obeying some unknown incantation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The Babylonian books of medic ine contained strange interminglings of prescription and incantation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The effect of this scene of incantation communicated a portion of its power to that which followed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This incantation to the moon. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• As to his religious notions--why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is no evi dence of a tendency to homeopathy, but mental healing seems to have been called into play by the use of numerous spells and incantations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

校对:伍德罗