alchemy
n. 鍊金術; 煉丹術; (改變事物、物質的)魔力(或方法); (事物、物質的)神秘變化
Alchemy was a form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, which was concerned with trying to discover ways to change ordinary metals into gold.
Alchemy is the power to change or create things in a way which seems mysterious and magical.
Let us imagine that by some political alchemy it had been possible to make all men equal.
讓我們想象透過某種政治魔力能使人人平等。
1. a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
2. the way two individuals relate to each other;
Richard told me of three 16th-century folio volumes on alchemy.
理查德告訴過我16世紀的三卷關於鍊金術的對開本書籍的事。
What spurred them on was alchemy, the'science " of changing ordinary metals into gold.
激勵他們的是鍊金術, 即把普通金屬變為金子的 “ 科學 ”.
Religion had an intimate association with alchemy during the Middle Ages.
在中世紀,宗教和鍊金術密切相聯.
Let us imagine that by some political alchemy it had been possible to make all men equal.
讓我們想象透過某種政治魔力能使人人平等。
One of the supreme quests of alchemy is to transmute lead into gold.
鍊金術的終極目的之一是將鉛轉化為金。