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

这是由于水银的缘故，它被称为疯帽匠病。

Quicksilver's staff, you remember, had set itself up against the wall of the cottage.

你记得水银的手杖是自己靠在屋的墙上的。

Quicksilver was the messenger of the gods.

水银是众神的信使。

Here they endure long hours at dangerous jobs, wringing flecks of gold from the dirt with mercury.

他们每天在这种危险的环境下工作很长时间，从带有水银的泥沙中淘出金沙。

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

他不心吃过温度计里的水银。

" How did you come to be made of quicksilver" ?

“你怎变成水银的” ？

Tap, tap, went the staff on the kitchen floor; nor did it rest until it stood beside Quicksilver's chair.

哒，哒，手杖轻轻地敲打着厨房的地板前行，一直来到水银的椅子旁边才立住。

And what effect does that mercury have on the living things here, including the people?

那水银对这里的生物，包括人类有什影响呢？

So a lot of early science depended on this trait of mercury.

所以很多早期的科都依赖于水银的这种特性。

On it, were the prices of quicklime, q uicksand and quicksilver.

上面是生石灰、流沙和水银的价格。

Anthony took the proffered hand and exchanged a few aphorisms on the fluctuations of the mercury.

安东尼握住伸出的手，就水银的波动交换了几句格言。

" I can't tell what to make of my staff, " said Quicksilver.

我不能说我的手杖是怎做的，水银说。

Typical symptoms of mercury poisoning include mental retardation, loss of balance, tremors, blindness and loss of hearing.

水银中毒的典型症状包括精神迟缓，平衡失调，颤抖，失明，失聪。

But the mercury of those days had a trick of falling unexpectedly.

但是那时候的水银有一个意外下降的把戏。

Hermopathy, or pouring mercury down his throat to move the animal spirits.

Hermopathy， 或将水银倒入他的喉咙以移动动物精神。

The most serious health risk of these high levels of mercury.

高水银含量危害最大的人群。

The World Health Organization says that mercury is a potent nerve toxin and can affect the brain.

世界卫生组织说，水银是强有力的神经毒药，严重者可以影响大脑。

At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his mercury.

最后他发现了她，但他的水银柱突然落下。

I've got a black light and I've got what's called a mercury vapor light.

我有一盏黑灯，还有一种叫做水银蒸气灯的东西。

And many thousands were killed mining silver and the mercury used to refine it.

成千上万的人在开采银和用来提炼银的水银时丧生。