Cardini, Master Magician, whose career span almost half a century, was the most imitated magician the world has ever known but his skill and talent could never be duplicated making him one of the world greatest magicians. Cardini,大师级魔术师,他的职业跨度近半个世纪,是世人知道的被假冒的最多的魔术师,但他的技艺和才能是绝对模仿不来的,这使他成为世界上最伟大的魔术师。He was born in 1895, Richard Pitchford, in a coal-mining town in Mumbles, Wales, (same village as Katherine Zeta Jones) . He joined the British Army during WW1 where he passed the time in the trenches by practicing his card manipulations. After being injured in battle was placed in a hospital were he continued to hone his magic skills. 他生于1895年,Richard Pitchford(地名),威尔士幕堡的一个煤矿小镇(与Katherine Zeta Jones同村)。一战期间他加入了英国军队,在战壕里耍纸牌陪他渡过了那段时光. 在战场上受伤后被安置在医院,在那他继续磨砺他的魔术技巧. First going to Australia to perform and then in Canada he entered the United States from British Columbia. 首次赴澳大利亚演出,然后在加拿大,他从英属哥伦比亚进入美国. While working his way across the U.S. he met Swan Walker in Chicago, who became his wife and life long assistant. 在他往返于美国工作期间,在芝加哥他认识了Swan Walker,后来成了他的妻子和终身助理.In New York City, Cardini became an almost immediate success as audiences (and magicians) had never seen such an act. 在纽约,Cardini几乎是一炮打响,因为观众(和魔术师)从没见过这样的表演。The act was not merely a magician performing tricks but an actor with strange and unexplained things happening to him. The sleight of hand, appearance and disappearance of objects, and gestures were all timed precisely and exactly coordinated to the music. 这种表演不仅仅是一个魔术师表演戏法,而是他本身就是一个前所未知的、奇妙的参与者。 他娴熟的手法,物体的出现和消失和手势,都和音乐达到了精确的同步和完美的协调。He played The Palace, Radio City Music Hall, London Palladium, Copa Cabana and other prominent nightclubs and Reviews. 他曾为宫殿,广播城市,杂耍戏院,伦敦女神像,酷吧小屋和其他卓越的夜总会及场所表演。A command performance for the King of England in 1938. In 1957 at age 62, he appeared on one of the few magic television shows broadcast at that time. 在1938年为英格兰国王进行了御前表演。在1957年他62岁的时候,他在当时很少的魔术电视表演节目中曾出现表演了一次。The Festival of Magic. This is the only known footage to exist of the master at work. 魔术节。这是现存的唯一一个大师的电影胶片。Among his many awards was the New England Magic Society's proclamation of Cardini as the "greatest exponent of pure sleight of hand the world has ever known".(1958 ) 在他的众多奖赏中,新英格兰魔术界宣布Cardini 是“世界上最伟大的纯手法典范”(1958)。He was honored in 1970 with the Master Magician awarded at the Magic Castle, LA, presented but Tony Curtis. In 1999 he was named one of Magic Magazines Top Magicians of the 20th Century.他1970年在拉丁美洲的魔术城堡被授予继 Tony Curtis之后的魔术大师。在1999年,他被魔术期刊评为二十世纪的顶级魔术师。Although he has been dead for almost 30 years magician still recognized his creativity, innovation and originality. He perfected his craft with hard work and perserverance. 尽管他去世近三十年了,魔术师们仍公认他的创造力,创新精神和独创力。他用勤奋和耐心使他的技艺完美。It is easy to forget this Master's high standard he held the magic industry to.忘掉这位大师对魔术的高标准是很容易的。我觉得楼主最后一句话漏掉了一个not,看全文,应该是否定的意思。