| 释义 |
alchemy
['æl.kə.mi] noun uncountable
■a type of chemistry, especially from about the years 1100 to 1500, which dealt with trying to find a way to change ordinary metals into gold and with trying to find a medicine which would cure any disease 炼金术，炼丹术
■literary
■a process that is so effective that it seems like magic （事物的）神秘变化•She manages, by some extraordinary alchemy, to turn the most ordinary of ingredients into the most delicious of dishes.她像用了魔法似的，竟然能用极普通的配料做出非常可口的菜肴。 |