It seemed as if we'd plunged into a pool of quicksilver.

真可以说，我们在水银中游泳了。

Mercury is the only metal that's a liquid at room temperature, which is why it's sometimes called quicksilver — which comes from the Old English for “living silver”, not the X-Men.

汞唯一一种在室温下呈液态的金属，这就为什么它有时被称为水银的原因——它来自古英语，意为“活银”，而不“X”。

I've seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails.

我见过飞鱼掠过碧海，尾鳍划出银色波光，灵耀眼。

The element whose atomic number is at Mercury is also called quicksilver.

原子序数为水星的元素也被称为水银。

Blood proved considerably thinner than the quicksilver of power.

血缘关系有权力的汞那样紧密。

You can imagine how beautiful these things are because mercury, it's quicksilver.

你可以想象这些东西有多美，因为水银就水银色的。

So when anoles first dive under water, a very thin layer of air forms around the whole body, giving them sort of a shimmery appearance, almost like quicksilver.

因此，当变色龙第一次潜入水下时，全身会形成一层非常薄的空气， 使它们看起来有点闪闪发光， 就像水银一样。

Before we are whisked away with the quicksilver god, we must take the time to prepare ourselves.

在我们被这位行如水银般迅捷的神只带走之前，必须先花点时间做好准备。

I was a trader in quicksilver, but one day a strong wind upset my boat on the Yellow River so that I could not return to my native town.

我一名水银商人，有一天，黄河上的船被一阵大风吹翻，无法返回故乡。

The other day he was pretending to tap a man's brain and get quicksilver out of it." " Good gracious!

前几天，他假装要敲打一个男人的大脑，然后从中取出水银。“太好了！