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.
雙語例句
1. Mirrors have a backing of quicksilver.
鏡子有水銀作底.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他們中第一個(gè)下來的人急急忙忙地快步向我走來。
來自柯林斯例句
3. By heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines.
但愿蒼天有眼, 讓他們到水銀礦上去作苦工.
來自辭典例句
4. Quicksilver , though a metal, is a liquid.
水銀雖是金屬, 但它是一種液體.
來自辭典例句
5. Theirs was the only boat afloat on this endless expanse of water like rippling quicksilver.