alchemists

The formula of the gunpowder was first discovered by Taoist alchemists of ancient China when trying to make pills of immortality.

火药的配方最初是由中国古代炼丹家在炼制丹药的过程中发现的。

Status Offline Technology alchemists have been promising to turn base data into golden nuggets of information for the last 20 years.

过去二十年，技术专家一直承诺要将原始资料转换成宝贵信息。

the alchemists were unable to accept the in convertible nature of elemental metals.

炼金术士是不会接受自然金属不可变化的性质的。

The Pelican was in this spiritual sense a valid image of the Christ experience and was used as such by the early alchemists.

鹈鹕在这种精神上的官能是一个基督经历的有效肖像，被早期的炼金术士使用。

And even I wish to see the punishment of financial alchemists who claimed that ever more debt turns economic lead into gold.

甚至连我自己也希望看到，那些宣称越来越多的债务能让经济点石成金的金融术士们受到惩罚。

As I remarked in The Alchemy of Finance, the alchemists made a mistake in trying to change the nature of base metals by incantation.

正如我在《金融炼金术》中说的，炼金术士在试图用咒语改变基本金属性质时犯了错误。

I've got no time for old alchemists . Lysander would be completely useless in a real fight.

我没有时间理年长的鍊金术师。雷山德在真正的战斗中完全无法发挥任何作用。

Alchemists, to borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, were to be on tap, not on top.

借用温斯顿·丘吉尔的话说，炼金术士当时并非高高在上，但是却发挥着作用。

Alchemists are able to avoid those traps and learn from even the most noxious or apparently useless comments.

炼金师就能避开这些陷阱，甚至从最毒或明显一无是处的评说中学到东西。

For the next five centuries, Dr Principe thinks, alchemists were the "northern chemists" of Europe.

普林西比博士认为在接下来的几个世纪里，炼金术士便成了欧洲的“北方化学家”。

The crabbed , patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.

这些阿拉伯炼金术士难以捉摸、坚韧不拔的实验方法传人基督教世界。

But since not all alchemists really understood what these particular rocks were, other kinds of minerals got tagged with the name as well.

但是并不是所有炼金者都真正明白这种特殊的岩石到底是什么，以及其他的矿石要怎么标记。

There is an unusual number of manuscripts of the early English alchemists in the libraries of Cambridge.

在剑桥图书馆里有关于早期英国炼金术士的相当大数目的手稿。

It speaks of early alchemists Zosimus and Isis and of course go back to Sumerian gods and myths.

它提到了早期的炼金术士佐西玛和伊希斯，当然也回到苏美尔的众神和神话中去。

If you don't mind my saying so, you need one of those crazy Alchemists for such research.

如果你不介意的话，我觉得你需要一个疯狂的炼金术士帮助你研究。

The alchemists of Wall Street are at it again.

华尔街炼金术士又重操旧业了。

Medieval alchemists hunted in vain for the rejuvenating Philosopher's Stone; industrial-age quacks got rich off their patent elixirs.

中世纪的炼金术士没有炼成让人年轻的魔法石。工业时期的江湖郎中因为长生不老药的专利而暴富。

Professor Newman also counters that alchemists of the time were more similar to chemists than wannabe magicians.

教授纽曼也反驳道，那个时代的炼金术士更类似于化学家而非自封的魔法师。

But in the end, too many alchemists would not let go of their theories, even as knowledge advanced.

但是到后来，很多炼金术士即便在知识发展的情况之下，也不愿意放弃自己的错误理论。

Alchemists searched for the Philosophers' Stone, which was supposed to be capable of turning base metals into gold or silver.

炼金术士到处寻找点金石，据说那是能把贱金属变成金银的东西。