国王要求一位名叫约翰·弗里德里希·伯特格的德国炼金术士用铅来炼金。
A German alchemist called Johann Friedrich Bottger was asked by the king to make gold out of lead.
当即，炼金术士的披风和蒸馏罐马上成为时尚，其价格立刻扶摇直上。
那么，你想做一个炼金术士，还是一个化学家呢？
工业家正在将沙和石油转化为更为小巧、更为复杂的机器，这是一种连历史中的炼金术士做梦都无法想到的魔法。
Our industrialists are transforming sand and oil into ever smaller and more intricate machines, a form of alchemy more wondrous than anything any alchemist ever dreamed of.
曾经有一名著名的炼金术士证明了硫酸盐泉的“奇迹般的”特性和物质转变毫无关系。
It was a renowned alchemist who proved that the "miraculous" properties of vitriol springs had nothing to do with true transmutation.
几个世纪以来，科学家都在尝试将基本金属变为贵金属，最常见的是铅变成黄金——甚至现代科学之父艾萨克·牛顿也是一个炼金术士。
For centuries, scientists have tried to turn base metals into precious ones, most commonly lead into gold — even Isaac Newton, the father of modern science, was an alchemist.
好吧，我总认为自己是个炼金术士和变化的催化剂。
Well, I've always seen myself as an alchemist, a catalyst for change.
作为炼金术士的艾萨克爵士，他说道，和作为权威的数学原理的作者的艾萨克爵士比起来不呈多让。
Sir Isaac the Alchemist, he said, was no less the fierce and uncompromising scientist than was Sir Isaac, author of the magisterial Principia Mathematica.
企图欺骗国王的炼金术士会受到死刑的惩罚，而且用的是全镀金的方式。
Should an alchemist be found guilty of attempting to deceive the king, the penalty was execution, and in high gilded style.
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。
There is an unusual number of manuscripts of the early English alchemists in the libraries of Cambridge.
鉴于皇家科学院现在的负债状况，或许一个“炼金术士”会是最适合这份工作的人选。
Given the debt, though, perhaps an alchemist would be the most appropriate person for the job.
炼金术士们还发现了磷等其他元素。
The alchemists also discovered some elements, such as phosphorous.
炼金术士也是辨别污点证人真假的专家。
普林西比博士重现的那个实验，正说明了炼金术士们的确认为金属转化的理念是正确的。
The experiment which Dr Principe reconstructed showed just how alchemists might truly have believed they were thinking the right way about the transmutation of metals.
这是因为所有的炼金术士都发现，在结果中发现你想得到的远比发现真正的现象容易。
This is because, as the alchemists found out, it can be all too easy to see in your results what you want to see, rather than what is actually there.
即便很多君主私下保护炼金术士，以期超过其他国家，但很多国家还是颁布了法令，禁止运用金属变成金子的方法。
Many countries passed laws forbidding the transmutation of metals, even as their Kings secretly patronised alchemy hoping to gain an advantage over other monarchs.
炼金术士穿着金丝织成的衣服，被吊死在镀金的绞刑架上。
The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil.
尽管如此，炼金术士还是获得了许多成就，他们创造了色彩鲜艳的天然色素，使原来的色素更完美——红色的氧化铅，黄色的硫化砷，少许铜加上醋，你就会得到明亮的绿色的铜绿。
Yet the alchemists had their triumphs, inventing brilliant new pigments, perfecting the old - red lead oxide, yellow arsenic sulfide, a little copper and vinegar and you've got bright green verdigris.
甚至有人建议艺术家们，忘掉那些自己调配的颜色吧，我们可以从炼金术士那里得到更好的颜色。
Artists were advised, forget about mixing your own colors: you can get the best from an alchemist.
而现在时间会为炼金术士们正名。
研究人员要使用他们的这种科技来制作出一张太阳的图像，图像的灵感来自于一位17世纪炼金术士的绘画作品(太阳是炼金术士表示黄金的标志)。
The researchers used their technique to create an image of the sun inspired by the drawings of Robert Fludd, a 17th-century alchemist (the sun is the alchemists' symbol for gold).
她是我们的炼金术士，她把生活中一切美好的东西融为和谐的力量。
She shall be our alchemist, to mingle all the good of life in one salubrious draught.
炼金术士在寻找点金石，约瑟夫·赖特作，德比博物馆和艺术画廊——德比郡(英格兰)。
The Alchymist, In Search of the Philosopher's Stone, by Joseph Wright, Derby Museum and Art Gallery - Derby (England).
鲁益师(C . s .Lewis)曾谈到过深奥的魔法——中世纪的炼金术士们在当时寻找能把铅变成金子的魔法。
C. S. Lewis talked about "deep magic of that medieval alchemists were looking for a magic way to turn lead into gold".
我们将向大自然学会生活……她是我们的炼金术士，她把生活中一切美好的东西融为和谐的力量。
We will learn of nature how to live... she shall be our alchemist, to mingle all the good of life in one salubrious draught.
即使是炼金术士现在在上面一层房间，他最终会做完自己的事情，而后离开。
Even if the alchemist were in the upper room now, eventually he must finish his business and depart.
如果你想有一个关于享受旅途快乐的提示，你可以阅读《炼金术士》这本书或者另外一本《美食、祈祷、恋爱》，学习意大利人那种从“无为”中获取快乐的心态。
Or read the magnificent book “ Eat, Pray, Love” and follow the Italian mentality of ”Il Bel Far Niente (The Joy of Doing Nothing)”.
而这正是这位年轻的炼金术士，爱德华，所担负的责任。
乍看上去，它完全象是一位炼金术士的幻术。
乍看上去，它完全象是一位炼金术士的幻术。
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