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philosophers' stone

哲学家的石头,哲人石,哲学家石,哲学家的石块

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Alchemy.

    • : a substance sought by alchemists that would be capable of transmuting baser metals into gold or silver and of prolonging life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inMidas touch

Examples

  • My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

  • “The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.

  • Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

  • That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.

  • “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.

  • That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.

  • Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!

  • A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.

  • The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.

  • A few small rocks of some soft stone may be added, and in between these the Ferns are planted.