| 释义 |
alembic/əˈlembik/n. 1 hist. an apparatus formerly used in distilling [史义]蒸馏器 2 a means of refining or extracting 蒸馏(提纯)技术 [Middle English via Old French and medieval Latin alembicus from Arabic al-'anbīk, from al ‘the’ + 'anbīk ‘still’, from Greek ambix, -ikos ‘cup, cap of a still’] |