• adj. 密封的；與外界隔絕的；不透氣的；煉金術的
• n. 煉金術士

來自希臘語Hermes,古希臘神話中的智慧、藝術與技藝之神，與埃及神Thoth一起被古代的柏拉圖主義者，神秘主義者和煉金術士奉為祖師爺，被稱為Hermes Trismegistos,即Thrice-Great Hermes,因此，一種在煉金術中發明的密封玻璃管就此得名。

hermetic

hermetic: [17] Hermetic means literally ‘of Hermes’. Not Hermes the messenger of the Greek gods, though, but an Egyptian priest of the time of Moses, who in the Middle Ages was regarded as identical with the versatile Hermes in his capacity of patron of science and invention, and who was thus named Hermes Trismegistus ‘Hermes the thrice greatest’. This shadowy figure was the supposed author of various works on alchemy and magic, and so the term hermetic came to be roughly synonymous with alchemical.

One of the inventions credited to Hermes Trismegistus was a magic seal to make containers airtight, and by the 1660s we find hermetic being used for ‘airtight’.

hermetic (adj.)

c. 1600 (implied in hermetically), "completely sealed," also (1630s) "dealing with occult science or alchemy," from Latin hermeticus, from Greek Hermes, god of science and art, among other things, identified by Neoplatonists, mystics, and alchemists with the Egyptian god Thoth as Hermes Trismegistos "Thrice-Great Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal.

1. Their work is more cosily hermetic than ever.

他們的工作比任何時候都要更加安逸，更加不受外界干擾。

來自柯林斯例句

2. the strange, hermetic world of the theatre

神秘、與世隔絕的戲劇世界

來自《權威詞典》

3. The hermetic seal on the packet means that the food lasts longer.

封袋上的密封印表明食物能保存更長的時間.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. This would permit air to enter, breaking the hermetic seal of the jar.

這會造成漏氣，破壞罐子的密封性。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Its film industry operates in its own curiously hermetic way.

其電影產業以它奇特的與世隔絕的方式運作。

來自辭典例句