Since this land only holds two grams of precious metal per ton of mud, mercury is needed to pull the gold from the sludge.

由于片土地每吨泥浆只含有两克贵金属，因此需要用从淤泥中提取黄金。

He reasoned that as the wheels spun, the mercury would flow to the bottom of each reservoir, leaving one side of the wheel perpetually heavier than the other.

他解释，随着轮轴转动，会顺着流向每个储液槽的底，会使滚轮的边永远比另边重。

Some corners of Mercury polar craters are in permanent shadow.Here, on the most sunbaked planet of all, water seems to survive frozen in the eternal darkness.

些角落里的极地陨石坑在永久的影子。在里, 在地球上的所有最太阳炙烤下, 似乎冻结在永恒的黑暗中生存。

He had a bad experience with the mercury in a broken thermometer.

他不小心吃过温度里的。

Now that doesn't mean it turns solid like steel, it's still liquid, but a metallic liquid, maybe something like the mercury inside a thermometer.

并不意味着它会像钢铁变成固体，它仍然是液态，但却是种金属态的液体，或许有点像温度里的。

Thing is, when the mercury plummets, we don't actually feel the temperature.

重要的是，当掉下来时，我们感觉不到温度。

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

真可以说，我们是在中游泳了。

And to amass the large sample number, they recruited volunteers through the Dragonfly Mercury Project.

他们为了收集大量本，通过“蜻蜓划”招募了志愿者。

Quicksilver was the messenger of the gods.

是众神的信使。

It was because of the mercury and it became known as mad hatter disease.

是由于的缘故，它被称为疯帽匠病。

Don't eat or take or consume mercury.

不要吃或摄入。

Mercury has a greater density than water.

的密度比大。

Now it's time to add some color to this face and I'm going to use a modern, safe alternative to a product called vermilion, which is actually red mercury.

现在是时候给张脸加点颜色了，我要用种现代的，安全的替代品来代替种叫做朱砂的产品，实际它含。

She sighed and relaxed and after a time which might have been a year or a second, she was alone and the room was brighter as the rays of the moon streamed in across the bed.

也许长达年，也许不过秒钟----才发现自己原来个人在里，房间里已更加明亮，因为月色像般地洒在她的床上了。

Ever since the evening before the barometer, suddenly falling, had indicated an approaching change in the atmosphere;and during the night the temperature varied, the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the south–east.

从昨天夜里开始，晴雨表上的柱就迅速下降，预示着气候即将发生变化。到了13号夜晚，天气果然变得更冷了，西北风也转为东南风了。

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.

汞是唯种在室温下呈液态的金属，就是为什么它有时被称为的原因——它来自古英语，意为“活”，而不是“X战警”。

Shortly after, the mercury in the thermometer would descend below freezing and stay there until April or May, when the snow would begin to melt and the rivers would rush with the clear turquoise of super-oxygenated ice.

不久之后，温度中的就会降到冰点以下，并直保持到 4 月或 5 月，时雪会开始融化，河流会随着超氧化冰的清澈绿松石涌动。

Only the wealthy could afford the emeralds, so the poor would drink arsenic or mercury, which killed them even faster than the plague would have.

只有富人才买得起祖母绿，所以穷人会喝砒霜或，比瘟疫杀死他们的速度还要快。

When the mercury rises and the danger of frost is past, the plants are then transplanted to the garden or to a flowerbed.

当上升，霜冻的危险过去后，些植物就被移植到花园或花坛上。

We should mention that CFL light bulbs contain a bit of mercury and should be recycled or disposed of properly.

值得提的是，荧光灯内含有少量，应当加以回收，妥善处理。