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sorcery

/sawr-suh-ree/US // ˈsɔr sə ri //UK // (ˈsɔːsərɪ) //

巫术,妖术,诡异,邪术

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sor·cer·ies.

    • : the art, practices, or spells of a person who is supposed to exercise supernatural powers through the aid of evil spirits; black magic; witchery.

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Examples

  • Saudi Arabia has recently beheaded women for “sorcery” but has avoided apostasy trials involving its few Christian converts.

  • For foreign household workers in Saudi Arabia, most of them women, sorcery charges are more common than you might think.

  • Saudi citizens, too, have been arraigned, and executed, for sorcery.

  • Payback against those accused of practicing sorcery is a deep-set custom in some parts of the ethnically diverse nation.

  • Off screen, though, Momoa is already looking past the world of on-screen sorcery.

  • Oh, sorcery of the most wonderful magician of letters the world has seen since Shakespeare!

  • Robin was convicted of sorcery, and, persevering in his error, was burned alive in the Place du Parvis.

  • But in this Domdaniel of Sorcery even his assurance was wavering—I will tell you later, he replied nervously.

  • This is strange,” thought he, “that in the house of sorcery there should be food so wholesome.

  • He could express it in the semantics of spiritism, or he could admit to witchcraft and sorcery.