quicksilver
基本释义
- adj.
- <文>变化[移动]极快的，瞬息万变的; 水银
实用例句
his quicksilver temperament
他那喜怒无常的性情
牛津词典
...her quicksilver changes of mood.
她变化无常的情绪
In private his quicksilver manner can charm colleagues or just as quickly destroy them.
从个人来讲,他易变的态度可以吸引同事或者迅速毁灭他们.
期刊摘选
Her quicksilver nature had been a constant concern to her parents in the past.
她好感情用事,这曾使她父母牵肠挂肚.
期刊摘选
It was like watching quicksilver in motion.
感觉就像是看水银流动.
期刊摘选
By heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines.
但愿苍天有眼, 让他们到水银矿上去作苦工.
辞典例句
Mirrors have a backing of quicksilver.
镜子有水银作底.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
Mercury ( quicksilver ): Metallic chemical element, chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80.
汞 ( 亦称水银 ): 金属化学元素, 化学符号Hg, 原子序数80.
期刊摘选
Like spilt quicksilver, hoarse growls rolled over the lurid weeds like thunders.
低沉嘶哑的吼声像散落的水银滚过红色的草.
期刊摘选
Le is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and It'stays.
爱就像是握在手里的水银, 把手指张开,它好好的呆在那里,要是你紧紧抓着.
期刊摘选
Quicksilver , though a metal, is a liquid.
水银虽是金属, 但它是一种液体.
辞典例句
One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他们中第一个下来的人急急忙忙地快步向我走来。
柯林斯例句
英英释义
1. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
1. liable to sudden unpredictable change;
"erratic behavior"
"fickle weather"
"mercurial twists of temperament"
"a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"