He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another.

他就像一个炼金术士，能够把一种物质变成另一种。

Hermes himself was the God of alchemists and magicians and, functionally similar to Hermes, is our good friend Thoth.

赫尔墨斯本人是炼金术士和魔法师神，而我们好朋友托特在功能上与赫尔墨斯相似。

Jan van Eyck's contemporaries, called him " an alchemist" , and although he did not invent oil painting, as has been suggested, he did refine it.

与扬·凡·艾克同时代人称他为“炼金术士”，尽管他没有像人们所说那样发明油画，但他确实对它进行了改进。

The history of chemistry goes way back to the Alchemists.

化学历史可以追溯到炼金术士时代。

Many alchemists believed that the stone could also be an elixir of life, possessing the power to cure illness or even grant immortality to the one who possessed it.

许多炼金术士相信这块石头也可能是一种长生不老药，有治愈疾病力量，甚至可以让有它人长生不老。

There have been many reports of the Philosopher's Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover.

许多世纪以来，关于魔法石有过许多报道，但目前惟一仅存一块魔法石属于著名炼金术士和歌剧爱好者尼可勒梅先生。

Chemistry as an earnest and respectable science is often said to date from 1661, when Robert Boyle of Oxford published The Sceptical Chymist the first work to distinguish between chemists and alchemists-but it was a slow and often erratic transition.

人们常说，化学作为一门严肃而受人科学始于1661年。当时，牛津大学罗伯特·玻义耳发表了“怀疑化学家”这是第一篇区分化学家和炼金术士论文——但这一转变是缓慢，常常是不确定。

Gold's industry peers liken the way she does her job to the practice of an alchemist, a snake charmer, a card sharp, as if she were performing some kind of shadowy magic.

黄金行业同行们将她工作方式比作炼金术士、耍蛇人、玩牌高手做法，仿佛她在施展某种神魔法。

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists.

我写信给阿不思，可能是无意识地，描绘起了我在旅行中看到奇景和故事，从在希腊勉强逃离吐火兽事，到埃及那些炼金术士们实验。

Germany also, 1732, in what is now Cologne; an alchemist.1872, a very brief life as a woman, dying at age 33 in childbirth.Sweden.

还有在1732年德国，现在科隆；他是一个炼金术士。1872年，作为一个女人，生命非常短暂，33岁死于难产。瑞典。

Harry Potter, The Alchemist, the Bible, maybe?

也许是《哈利波特》、《炼金术士》、《圣经》。

The legendary alchemist John Dee worked for him, as did Rabbi Loew, the man said to have created the Golem.

传奇炼金术士约翰·迪为他工作，还有据说创造了傀儡拉比·洛。

The Alchemist, a two-star Michelin restaurant in Copenhagen, serves pig-blood ice cream (the blood replaces eggs as an emulsifier).

位于哥本哈根米其林二星级餐厅“炼金术士”提供猪血冰淇淋(用猪血替代鸡蛋作为乳化剂)。

But the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera-lover.

但目前惟一仅存一块魔法石属于著名炼金术士和歌剧爱好者尼可·勒梅先生。

The quest to live for ever has motivated medieval alchemists, modern techno-Utopians and mystics through the centuries.

历经了数个世纪，人们都追求着永生，这种观点激励着中世纪炼金术士，现代技术乌托邦主义者，神主义者。

He was an alchemist who turned marble into flesh and bone and brought a psychological insight and physical realism to sculpture never seen before.

他是一个炼金术士，他把大理石变成了肉和骨头，给雕塑带来了前所未有心理洞察力和物理现实主义。

Contemporary alchemist and chemist Lawrence Principe warns us to not dismiss the practice as cheap tricks, saying that alchemists had been using the best theories they could come up with to try to understand our very complex world.

当代炼金术士和化学家劳伦斯·普林西比警告我们，不要把炼金术士做法视为廉价把戏，他说，炼金术士一直在用他们能想到最好理论来试图理解我们这个非常复杂世界。

He supported alchemists and astrologers, but also astronomers and mathematicians.

他支持炼金术士和占星家，但也支持天文学家和数学家。

A visionary alchemist, arrested by a tyrannical ruler, is put to work turning scraps into riches.

暴君逮捕了一名有创见炼金术士，并派他去变废为宝。

The Alchemists searched for what is called the philosopher's stone.

炼金术士们寻找所谓贤者之石。