炼

• Religion had an intimate association with alchemy during the middle ages .
  在中世纪，宗教和炼金术密切相联。
• Her love was a fire playing ineffectually over a rock of basalt .
  她的爱，如同一团火，徒劳地烧炼着一块玄武岩石。
• This statement is the fundamental axiom that distinguished chemistry from alchemy .
  这个论述是化学区别于炼金术的基本定律。
• They do not seem to have cast them into moulds of beautiful language .
  他们似乎并没有把它们投进华丽词藻的模型里去加以铸炼。
• I'm convinced it was the product of a subtle magic, the alchemy of moonlight .
  我相信这一切都是不可思议的魔力--月光炼金术的效果。
• The new method was so much cheaper that aluminum became practical for many purposes .
  新法炼铝经济得多，这使得铝有了许多实际用途。
• One shrewd thing he did, which indicated the foresight and subtlety of the man .
  他干的那件精明事，表现了这个家伙的深谋远虑和巧妙干炼。
• I'm going to train till i'm as hard all the way throughand clean all the way throughas that chain is .
  我要炼得象这条链子一样不但坚强刚健，而且一尘不染。
• The earliest mention of explosives are to be found in the alchemical writings of the first half of the seventeenth century .
  最早提及炸药的是十七世纪上半叶炼金术的著作。
• She was no longer the milkmaid, but an essence of woman-a whole sex condensed into one typical form .
  她不再是一个挤牛奶的女工了，而是个女性精华--从全体妇女里凝炼出来的一个典型仪容。