1. 煉金術(shù);煉丹術(shù) Alchemy was a form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, which was concerned with trying to discover ways to change ordinary metals into gold.
2. (改變事物的)魔力 Alchemy is the power to change or create things in a way which seems mysterious and magical.
alchemy
e.g. Let us imagine that by some political alchemy it had been possible to make all men equal. 讓我們想象通過(guò)某種政治魔力能使人人平等。
alchemy英英釋義
noun
1. a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
2. the way two individuals relate to each other
e.g. their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other a mysterious alchemy brought them together