/ˌæbrəkəˈdæbrə/ n.1.(in incantations)咒语
She said some terrible abracadabra and accidentally summoned the genie out of his bottle.她念了些可怕的咒语, 竟不期然将妖怪从他瓶子里召唤出来了。
2.(jargon)胡言乱语;蒙人的行话
His party lost the election, and no amount of legal abracadabra can obscure this fact.他所在的党竞选失败了, 无论多少法律方面的高深术语都掩盖不了这个事实。
pseudo-scientific abracadabra伪科学的骗人鬼话