【alchemy】 - SAT备考词汇

alchemy

UK:  ['ælkəmi]

US:  ['ælkəmi]

n.

1.炼金术;(中国古代的)炼丹术

2.烘丹术

3.魔力,秘法

4.点金术

1 . We are about to find out how much of it has been driven by financial alchemy.
我们即将发现，它在多大程度上是由金融炼金术促成的。

2 . The early scientific study of chemistry, known as alchemy, grew up in the first few centuries A. D. at Alexandria in Egypt.
早期有关化学的科学性研究叫作炼金术，它在纪元后的最初几个世纪中在埃及的亚历山大得到发展。

3 . So, a different, and rather wonderful, sort of alchemy has taken place in Oxford.
因此，一个不同的，很美妙的、有些像炼金术的东西在牛津出现了。

4 . It is an incredible example of modern alchemy, or a scientific miracle in recent times, to turn a piece of stone into a silicon chip.
把石头变成硅芯片的过程是一项点石成金的成就，也是近代科学的奇迹！

5 . He did not dream how ardent and masculine his gaze was, nor that the warm flame of it was affecting the alchemy of her spirit.
他做梦也没想到自己的目光会那么炽烈、强悍，它那温暖的火苗会搅乱她的方寸。