英语词汇“alchemy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

al·che·my

(ălkə-mē)

1. A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.

2. A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting: "He wondered by what alchemy it was changed, so that what sickened him one hour, maddened him with hunger the next" (Marjorie K. Rawlings).

[Middle English alkamie, from Old French alquemie, from Medieval Latin alchymia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā' : al-, the + kīmiyā', chemistry (from Late Greek khēmeia, probably alteration of khumeia, from Greek khein, khu-, to pour; see gheu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots (influenced, owing to the reputation of Egyptian alchemists, by Greek Khēmiā, Egypt, from Egyptian kmt, Egypt, from feminine of km, black, in reference to the black soil of the Nile valley)).]

al·chemi·cal (ăl-kĕmĭ-kəl), al·chemic adj.

al·chemi·cal·ly adv.

单词	alchemy
释义	al·che·my (ălkə-mē) n. 1. A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity. 2. A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting: "He wondered by what alchemy it was changed, so that what sickened him one hour, maddened him with hunger the next" (Marjorie K. Rawlings). [Middle English alkamie, from Old French alquemie, from Medieval Latin alchymia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā' : al-, the + kīmiyā', chemistry (from Late Greek khēmeia, probably alteration of khumeia, from Greek khein, khu-, to pour; see gheu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots (influenced, owing to the reputation of Egyptian alchemists, by Greek Khēmiā, Egypt, from Egyptian kmt, Egypt, from feminine of km, black, in reference to the black soil of the Nile valley)).] al·chemi·cal (ăl-kĕmĭ-kəl), al·chemic adj. al·chemi·cal·ly adv.
随便看	restlessly restlessness rest mass restock Reston rest on laurels rest on (one's) laurels rest on one's laurels restoration restorative restorative justice restoratively restore restorer restrain restrainable restrained restrainedly restrainer restraining order restraint restraint of trade restrict restricted restrictedly