quicksilver
英 ['kwɪksɪlvə]
美 ['kwɪk'sɪlvɚ]
- adj. 水银的；水银似的；多变的
- n. 水银；汞
- vt. 涂水银于；用水银处理
中文词源
quicksilver 水银，瞬息万变的来自quick,活的，silver,银。比喻用法。
英文词源
- quicksilver (n.)
- Old English cwicseolfor, literally "living silver," translating Latin argentum vivum (source also of Italian argento vivo), literally "living silver;" so called from its liquid mobility. See quick (adj.) + silver (n.). Similar formation in Dutch kwikzilver, Old High German quecsilbar, German quecksilber, French vif-argent, Italian argenta viva.
双语例句
- 1. Mirrors have a backing of quicksilver.
- 镜子有水银作底.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. 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.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Quicksilver , though a metal, is a liquid.
- 水银虽是金属, 但它是一种液体.
来自辞典例句
- 5. Theirs was the only boat afloat on this endless expanse of water like rippling quicksilver.
- 这风从南面吹过来,从稻秧上苇尖吹过来,水面没有一只船,水像无边的跳荡的水银.
来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
