| 释义 |
box of tricks informal An ingenious gadget: all those magical effects were produced by this little box of tricks here...- The result is that you feel that you are watching a clever box of tricks: theatre almost entirely reduced to a few ingenious lighting effects.
- The internal combustion engine reveals it secrets easily, and lends itself to modification, whereas the mobile phone is a sealed box of tricks in a barely ‘customisable’ shell.
- We used to get a lot of inventors turn up at Northam with a box of tricks for us to look at.
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