alchemist
发音
How to pronounce alchemist in British English:
英 [ˈælkəmɪst]
How to pronounce alchemist in American English:
美 [ˈælkəmɪst]
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- Noun:
- one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
单词词源
- alchemist (n.)
- 1510s, from Middle French alquemiste, from Medieval Latin alchimista (see alchemy). Earlier forms were alchemister (late 14c.), alkanamyer (late 15c.).
双语例句
- 1. He fancied himself a sort of modern-day alchemist .
- 2. The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil .
- 3. Should an alchemist be found guilty of attempting to deceive the king , the penalty was execution , and in high gilded style .
- 4. The alchemist ignored the further alienation and built an alliance of extremists to get physical proof of the alien and to alter the world 's view of his theory .
- 5. If you employ an alchemist who fails to turn base metal into gold , the alchemist is certainly a fool and a fraud but the greater fool is the patron .