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.
实用例句
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.
