The alchemist was standing over him.

炼金术士就在他前面。

" The key" ? the alchemist inquired politely.

" 钥匙呢？" 炼金术士礼貌地问。

The alchemists created a jade look-alike called " Chinese glass" .

方士们发明了一种玉的相似物，叫做" 中国古玻璃" 。

" Do you have my dragon" ? he asked the alchemist.

" 你把金龙带来了吗？" 他问炼金术士。

" As you wish" . The alchemist pulled his hood down.

" 随你便。" 炼金术士拉下兜帽。

The triangle is the alchemist's symbol for flame.

三角形是炼金术师表示火焰的符号。

For us in the modern world, transmutation seems a little out there, but it's something that the alchemists were quite preoccupied with.

对现代社会的我们来说，嬗变似乎有点遥不可及，但这是炼金术士们非常关注的事情。

The magus, the sorcerer, the alchemist, are seized with fascination of the unknown; and they desire a greatness that is inaccessible to mankind.

魔术师、术士、炼金术士都被未知的事物所吸引； 他们渴望人类无法企及的伟大。

The only dragon Pate cared about was made of yellow gold. He wondered what had happened to the alchemist. The third day. He said he'd be here.

佩特只关心金龙。他琢磨着炼金术士。这是第三天。他说过会回来的。

And I really cannot see that the alchemist who spent his life in the attempted manufacture of gold was a more respectable object than the outside jobber of modern civilization'.

而且我真的看不出，毕生致力于制造黄金的炼金术士比现代文明的外行更受人尊敬。”

'I don't think I shall ever do that now, ' he said. 'Yet he is the most interesting of all the alchemists, for he offers the fascinating problem of an immensely complex character.

“我想我现在永远不会那样做了，”他说。 “然而他是所有炼金术士中最有趣的一个，因为他提出了一个极其复杂的性格的迷人问题。

By rearranging the properties of the elements and employing numerology, his Book of Stones includes recipes on how to purportedly create scorpions, snakes, and even human life, which would be under the control of the alchemist who created them.

通过重新排列元素的属性和运用数字命理学，他的《石头之书》包含了据称如何创造蝎子、蛇，甚至人类生命的配方，这些生命将在创造它们的炼金术士的控制下。