The thing that made this trick catch on so intently everywhere in the world.

使得這一招在世界各處都能引起人們的注意。

I think there's many reasons for it.

我想有很多原因。

One of them that the magician wasn't doing this trick to an inanimate object.

其中一個魔術師不是對著一個沒有生命的物體做這個魔術。

He was doing it to a human being, which raised it up to a whole new level.

他是對一個人做的，這就把它上升到了一個全新的高度。

And you also have to put it into perspective what was happening in the world at that time?

你還得把它放在當時世界上發生了什麼？

Well, one of the big things that was happening was women's suffrage.

嗯，其中一件大事就是婦女的選舉權。

The women wanted the right to vote.

婦女們希望獲得投票權。

The women wanted equal rights.

婦女希望享有平等的權利。

And now, at that moment, along comes P.T. Selbit and says equal rights,

接著，當時 P.T. Selbit 就主張性別平等，

and he takes a lady and puts her in a box and cuts her into two pieces.

他把一位女士放在一個盒子裡，並把她切成兩段。

It just completely flew into the face of what the world was trying to achieve at that time.

它只是完全飛向了當時世界所要達到的目標。