alchemy
alchemy 英 [ˈælkəmi] 美 [ˈælkəmi]
n. 点金术；魔力
名词复数:alchemies
- If your favorite but perpetually losing team picks up a couple of new players and the result is suddenly an unbeatable combo, that's alchemy — any seemingly magical act involving the combining of elements into something new.
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- n. 点金术；魔力
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1. Alchemy paved the way for the modern science of chemistry.
炼金术为现代化学铺了路.
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2. Astrology and alchemy are occult sciences.
占星学和炼丹术为神秘之学.
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3. One of the supreme quests of alchemy is to transmute lead into gold.
炼金术的终极目的之一是将铅转化为金。
- alchemy (n.) "medieval chemistry; the supposed science of transmutation of base metals into silver or gold" (involving also the quest for the universal solvent, quintessence, etc.), mid-14c., from Old French alchimie (14c.), alquemie (13c.), from Medieval Latin alkimia, from Arabic al-kimiya, from Greek khemeioa (found c.300 C.E. in a decree of Diocletian against "the old writings of the Egyptians"), all meaning "alchemy," and of uncertain origin.
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