alchemy
n. 点金术；魔力
n.
炼金术；炼丹术；（改变事物、物质的）魔力（或方法）；（事物、物质的）神秘变化
变形
复数：alchemies
英英释义
alchemy[ 'ælkimi ]
n.
a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
the way two individuals relate to each other
"a mysterious alchemy brought them together"
同义词：chemistryinterpersonal chemistry
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
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。
权威例句
ALCHEMYComputational Alchemy
Econometrics-Alchemy or Science?
The Alchemy system for statistical relational AI
The alchemy of race and rights: Diary of a law professor
Computational Alchemy: The Search for New Superhard Materials
Meta-analysis: statistical alchemy for the 21st century
Biological alchemy: engineering bone and fat from fat-derived stem cells.
The alchemy of English: The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes By Braj B. Kachru (review)
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
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alchemy: [14] Alchemy comes, via Old French alkemie and medieval Latin alchimia, from Arabic alkīmīā. Broken down into its component parts, this represents Arabic al ‘the’ and kīmīā, a word borrowed by Arabic from Greek khēmíā ‘alchemy’ – that is, the art of transmuting base metals into gold. (It has been suggested that khēmīā is the same word as Khēmīā, the ancient name for Egypt, on the grounds that alchemy originated in Egypt, but it seems more likely that it derives from Greek khūmós ‘fluid’ – source of English chyme [17] – itself based on the verb khein ‘pour’).Modern English chemistry comes not directly from Greek khēmíā, but from alchemy, with the loss of the first syllable.=> chemistry, chyme
alchemy (n.)
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." Perhaps from an old name for Egypt (Khemia, literally "land of black earth," found in Plutarch), or from Greek khymatos "that which is poured out," from khein "to pour," related to khymos "juice, sap" [Klein, citing W. Muss-Arnolt, calls this folk etymology]. The word seems to have elements of both origins.
Mahn ... concludes, after an elaborate investigation, that Gr. khymeia was probably the original, being first applied to pharmaceutical chemistry, which was chiefly concerned with juices or infusions of plants; that the pursuits of the Alexandrian alchemists were a subsequent development of chemical study, and that the notoriety of these may have caused the name of the art to be popularly associated with the ancient name of Egypt. [OED]
The al- is the Arabic definite article, "the." The art and the name were adopted by the Arabs from Alexandrians and thence returned to Europe via Spain. Alchemy was the "chemistry" of the Middle Ages and early modern times; since c. 1600 the word has been applied distinctively to the pursuit of the transmutation of baser metals into gold, which, along with the search for the universal solvent and the panacea, were the chief occupations of early chemistry.1. The transformation of experience to art, observation to art, emotion to art, or even idea to art is the alchemy of the writer.
将体验转化为艺术，将观察转化为艺术，将情感转化为艺术，甚至将构想转化为艺术，正是作家的魔力所在。
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2. The supernovae make the chemical elements through real alchemy, transforming one element, the light elements into the heavy ones.
超新星通过真正的点金术制造化学元素，把一种元素，轻的元素转变成重的。
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3. What is the alchemy of fear breaking?
冲破恐惧的点金术究竟是什么东西？
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4. Ponzi was convinced that he was a wizard who had stumbled upon a form of financial alchemy that had eluded others.
庞茨相信自己是一个魔法师，被赋予了一种他人所不具有的点金术。
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5. But the simplicity of the process belies the alchemy thattakes place under that desert sun.
但简单的制作过程掩盖着在沙漠阳光下的魔力的发生。
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6. Many countries passed laws forbidding the transmutation of metals, even as their kings secretly patronised alchemy hoping to gain an advantage over other monarchs.
即便很多君主私下保护炼金术士，以期超过其他国家，但很多国家还是颁布了法令，禁止运用金属变成金子的方法。
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7. Heal Your Life Now: The Alchemy Of Forgiveness
治愈你的生活：宽恕的魔力
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8. While struggling to come up with some concrete examples to these questions, the team at Alchemy Labs decided to "make" some generic widgets to illustrate our collective thoughts on this matter.
在我们努力为这些问题的举出一些具体例子时，AlchemyLabs团队决定“制作”一些通用的小部件，来阐述一下我们在这个问题上的集体共识。
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9. Some of this is alchemy, of course.
当然，有些是带来转机的神奇力量。
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10. I shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books; as I have sought gold in alchemy.
我要象我在书本中探索真理、用炼金术提炼黄金那样去找出这个男人。
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11. Our industrialists are transforming sand and oil into ever smaller and more intricate machines, a form of alchemy more wondrous than anything any alchemist ever dreamed of.
工业家正在将沙和石油转化为更为小巧、更为复杂的机器，这是一种连历史中的炼金术士做梦都无法想到的魔法。
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12. How could the ultimate scientist have been seemingly hornswoggled by a totemic psuedoscience like alchemy, which in its commonest rendering is described as the desire to transform lead into gold?
一个终极科学家怎么会看上去像是被炼金术这种图腾伪科学所迷惑，而对这种伪学科最常见的描述是把铅变成黄金的欲望？
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13. They seem to have figured out that the alchemy for success is an unusual mixture of boldness and humility - the boldness to imagine the future and the humility to work and sacrifice to achieve it.
他们似乎已经得到了成功的秘诀，那是勇敢与谦逊的非凡结合--勇敢的想象未来，同时为了达到这个目标而谦逊的工作，并为此做出牺牲。
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14. Like alchemy, finding the right mix of hardware and software ingredients to optimize your specific application is a black art—and one practiced most effectively in your own lair.
就像是炼金术一样，为您的应用程序找到最佳的硬件和软件组合是一种神秘的艺术，需要不断实践才能取得最有效的结果。
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15. For Newton, alchemy may also have proved bigger than chemistry.
对牛顿而言，炼金术也许也比化学更有用。
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16. The closest thing we have to modern-day alchemy may be the work of Kosaka Smelting and Refining, the Japanese firm that harvests gold and other valuable metals from old electronics.
可能最能称得上“现代炼金术”的就是小坂冶炼和精炼公司正在做的事了，这家日本公司从旧电器中回收金和其他有用的金属。
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17. What then is needed to get the alchemy going?
那么，开动这种炼金术需要什么呢？
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18. They are created by the alchemy of artists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, civic institutions and governments coming together in the right combination at the right moment.
这种社会是由艺术家、企业家、慈善家、民间机构、政府的炼金术在合适的时间、正确的组合中同时出现而创造出来的。
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19. They are created by the alchemy of artists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, civic institutions and governments coming together in the right combination at the right moment.
这种社会是由艺术家、企业家、慈善家、民间机构、政府的炼金术在合适的时间、正确的组合中同时出现而创造出来的。
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