alchemy GREGMAT专八

a secret society to study alchemy and the occult.

研究炼金术和神秘事物的秘密团体。

He wrote a book on (not upon ) alchemy.

他写了一本有关（而不是 upon ) 炼金术的书；

the association of alchemy with ‘hieroglyphics’ and ‘cabala’.

从炼丹术“象形文字”和“魔法”的联想。

his conducting managed by some alchemy to give a sense of fire and ice.

他的指挥由某种魔力操纵，让人情和冷漠的融合。

What spurred them on was alchemy,the “science” of changing ordinary metals into gold.

励他们的是炼金术，即把普通金属变为金子的“科学”。