alchemy

alchemy

英 ['ælkɪmɪ]
　　美 ['ælkəmi]

n. 點金術；魔力

中文詞源：

alchemy 煉金術

來自阿拉伯語。al, 阿拉伯定冠詞. 詞根chem, 註入，同詞根found, 註入，見confound，困惑的。現代化學由煉金術發展而來。

例句：

1. Richard told me of three 16th-century folio volumes on alchemy.
理查德告訴過我16世紀的三卷關於煉金術的對開本書籍的事。

2. What spurred them on was alchemy, the'science " of changing ordinary metals into gold.
激勵他們的是煉金術, 即把普通金屬變為金子的 “ 科學 ”.

3. Religion had an intimate association with alchemy during the Middle Ages.
在中世紀,宗教和煉金術密切相聯.

4. Let us imagine that by some political alchemy it had been possible to make all men equal.
讓我們想象通過某種政治魔力能使人人平等。

5. One of the supreme quests of alchemy is to transmute lead into gold.
煉金術的終極目的之一是將鉛轉化為金。