alchemy

英 ['ælkəmi] 美 ['ælkəmi]

• n. 炼金术；魔力

英英释义

Noun:

1. the way two individuals relate to each other;

   "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"
   "a mysterious alchemy brought them together"
   

2. a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. 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。

经典引文

• Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

  出自：Sonnets , Shakespeare

近反义词

【近义词】

• pseudoscience 假科学
• experimentation 实验
• transformation 转型
• chemistry 化学