alembic \uh-LEM-bik\, noun:
1. Anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
2. A vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling.
The dream-world of their experiences in the wood near Athens becomes a kind of 'alembic' which they pass through to a truer perception of reality.
-- Ronald P. Draper, Shakespeare, The Comedies
But the more he read the more he was astonished to find how the facts had passed through the alembic of Carlyle's brain and had come out and fitted themselves, each as a part of one great whole, making a compact result, indestructible and unrivaled...
-- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Alembic is derived from the Arabic word al-anbiq, which means "a distilling cup." It developed its broader meaning in the 1300s.
蒸餾器\ UH-萊姆-BIK\，名詞：
1。任何變換，淨化，或提煉。
2。用喙帽或頭前用蒸餾，船隻。
他們的經驗，在雅典附近的木材世界的夢想變成了一種“蒸餾器”，他們通過對現實更真實的感知通過。
- 羅納德P.德雷珀，莎士比亞的喜劇
但他讀越多，他驚奇地發現，事實如何凱雷的大腦的蒸餾器，並已通過了出來，裝自己，作為一個偉大的整體的一部分，每年，一個緊湊的結果，堅不可摧和無與倫比的...... 。
- 狄更斯雙城記
蒸餾器是來自阿拉伯語單詞AL-anbiq的，這意味著“蒸餾杯。”它在14世紀發展的更廣泛的含義。
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