Maybe so, but for other people the very idea of a hypnotic trance is nonsense.

也许是这样，但对其他人来说，让人进入催眠状态的想法是无稽之谈。

One of the first Europeans to hypnotise people, this man became so famous that his name is forever associated with hypnotic trances – but who was he?

他是最早对人进行催眠的欧洲人之一，他如此有名以至于他的名字永远和催眠状态联系在一起——但他是谁呢？

You put yourself in a hypnotic trance to cope with some terrible situation and you begin to develop new and separate and distinct personalities.

你让自己陷入催眠状态, 以应对一些可怕的局面, 你开始发展新的、独立的、独特的人格。

It's not so easy to put me into a hypnotic trance – that's the word to describe the state of mind of someone who's been hypnotised and isn't completely in control.

要让我进入催眠状态并不容易——这个词被用来描述被催眠并完全无法控制自己的人的精神状态。

Those included an account of a balloon voyage to the moon, and a report of a dying patient put into a hypnotic trance so he could speak from the other side.

其中包括对气球登月之旅的描述，以及一名垂死病人进入催眠状态以便从另一边说话的报告。