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Mercury is a metal, but a strange one: at ordinary room heat it is not a hard lump, but a heavy silver liquid. If you spill it, it breaks into bright little balls that run from your finger — that is why older English also called it quicksilver, as if the metal were alive. Though actually it is not alive, and it is poisonous.
MercuryMercury is a metal是一種金屬，but但 a strange one卻是很奇怪的一種：at ordinary room heat在一般室溫下，it它 is not a hard lump不是硬塊，but而是 a heavy silver liquid一種沉重的銀色液體。If you spill it如果你把它灑出來，it它 breaks into bright little balls會碎成一顆顆發亮的小球，that run from your finger從你的手指上滾走——that這 is why older English also called it quicksilver就是為什麼舊式英文也叫它 quicksilver，as if the metal were alive彷彿這種金屬是活的。Though actually不過其實，it它 is not alive並不是活的，and而且 it它 is poisonous有毒。
For a long time people sealed it inside glass and weather instruments, because the silver line climbs when it is warm and falls when it is cold. Many places have stopped that now: if the glass breaks, the liquid can hurt you if you breathe its or if it stays in the body.
For a long time很長一段時間，people人們 sealed it inside glass thermometers and weather instruments把它封在玻璃溫度計和氣象儀器裡，because因為 the silver line那條銀線 climbs when it is warm天熱時會上升，and而 falls when it is cold天冷時會下降。Many places很多地方 have stopped that now現在已經不這麼做了：if the glass breaks如果玻璃破了，the liquid液體 can hurt you可能會傷害你，if you breathe its vapour如果你吸到它的蒸氣，or或 if it stays in the body或它留在體內。
In science class the symbol is Hg, from an older learned name that meant “water-silver”.
In science class在自然課裡，the symbol符號 is Hg是 Hg，from an older learned name來自一個較古老的學術名稱，that meant "water-silver"意思是「水銀」。
The English name comes from Mercurius, the Roman messenger god; the metal got his name because it moves so fast. The planet closest to the sun is also Mercury, and that is the same old name used another way — but this word here is the metal.
The English name英文名字 comes from Mercurius來自 Mercurius，the Roman messenger god羅馬的信使之神；the metal這種金屬 got his name取用了他的名字，because因為 it它 moves so fast移動得很快。The planet closest to the sun離太陽最近的行星 is also Mercury也叫 Mercury，and而 that這 is the same old name used another way是同一個古老名字的另一種用法——but但 this word here這裡這個詞 is the metal指的是金屬。
組成From Middle English mercurie, from Late Latin mercurius for the metal (quicksilver), from Latin Mercurius — the Roman god of trade and messages, also the name of the planet. The metal took the god’s name. A link to Latin merx (“goods”) has been suggested, and a still older Etruscan source is possible, but scholars are not sure; further origin is uncertain.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mercuryname/ˈmɜː.(ɹ)kjʊ.ɹi/
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astronomynatural-sciencesThe first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.
- Thou, first of the children of men, art come to Mercury, where thou and I will journey up and down for a season to show thee the lands and oceans, the forests, plains, and ancient mountains, cities and palaces of this world, Mercury, and the doings of them that dwell therein.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger, wearing winged sandals; the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes.
Mercurynoun/ˈmɜː.(ɹ)kjʊ.ɹi/
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obsoletealchemychemistrynatural-sciencesQuicksilver, mercury. (No longer capitalized, as the name of the metal is no longer recognized as that of the planet.)
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archaicA carrier of tidings.
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archaicA carrier of tidings.
- Enter Mr. Tulkinghorn, followed by Mercuries with lamps and candles.
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archaicA carrier of tidings.
- His Mercury having made his observations, reported, that there was no body in the coach but Mrs. Hornbeck and an elderly woman, who had all the air of a duenna, and that the servant was not the same footman who had attended them in France.
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archaicA carrier of tidings.
- No allusion to it is to be found in the monthly Mercuries.
mercurynoun/ˈmɜːkjʊɹi/
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Senses relating to the metal.
- When therfore they perceaue a ſufficient quantitie of golde thus remaynynge on the tables, they gather it with diligence and put it in a tray or great ſhallowe dyſſhe of wod […] they beate or mixte (or amalgame it as they caule it) with Mercurie or quickſyluer, […]
- [I]f the inverted Tube of Mercury be but 25 Digits high, or ſomevvhat more, the Quick-ſilver vvill not fall but remain ſuſpended in the Tube; becauſe it cannot preſs the ſubjacent Mercury vvith ſo great a force, as does the incumbent Cylinder of the Air reaching thence to the top of the Atmoſphere: […]
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Senses relating to the metal.
- The mercury there has averaged 37.6°C, 2.3°C above the February norm.
- The summers are oppressively hot, and the winters very probably cold; but this fact cannot be ascertained precisely, as, for some peculiar reason, the mercury in these latitudes never shrinks, as in more northern regions, and thus the thermometer is rendered useless in winter.
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historicalmedicinesciencesSenses relating to the metal.
- [O]ur Cures vvere rendered tedious and unſucceſsful, […] vvhilſt their Bodies vvere purged vvith Catharticks vvithout Mercury. […] They are generally ſtrong if the party can bear them, viz. ſome Preparations of Mercury, as Turbish mineral. &c. or, Antimonial, as Crocus Metallor, in ſtronger Bodies; but in vveaker Conſtitutions vve give ſuch as vve may.
- [A] Set of Thieves and Pickpockets, not only robb'd and cheated the poor People of their Money, but poiſoned their Bodies vvith odious and fatal preparations; ſome vvith Mercury, and ſome vvith other things as bad, perfectly remote from the Thing pretended to; and rather hurtful than ſerviceable to the Body in caſe an Infection follovved.
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historicalsciencesSenses relating to the metal.
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obsoleteSenses relating to the metal.
- Religion thou haſt none: thy Mercury / Has paſs'd though every Sect, or theirs through Thee.
- [A]s able as your ſelf and as nimble too, though I mayn't have ſo much Mercury in my Limbs; […]
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Senses relating to plants.
- The herbe which is cõmunely [communely, i.e., commonly] called in engliſhe mercury hath nothyng to do wyth mercurialis, whereof I ſpake nowe. Let the Poticaries vſe thys mercury and let the commune mercury alone.
- French Mercurie is ſovven in kitchen gardens among potherbes, in vineyardes, and in moiſt ſhadovvie places, […] Mercurie is hot and drie, yet not aboue the ſecond degree: it hath a clenſing facultie, and (as Galen) vvriteth) a digeſting qualitie alſo.
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Senses relating to plants.
- Phyllon […] may be Engliſhed Barons Mercury or Phyllon, or Boyes Mercury or Phyllõ [Phyllon]. And the female is called […] in Engliſh Gyrles Phyllon or Mercury, Daughters Phyllon, or Mayden Mercury.
- Dogs Mercurie is ſomevvhat like vnto the garden Mercurie, ſauing the leaues heereof are greater, and the ſtalke not ſo tender, and yet very brittle, grovving to a height of a foote, vvithout any braunches at all, vvith ſmall yellovve flovvers. […] Childrens Mercurie hath three or fovver ſtalkes or mo: […] Theſe vvilde kinds of Mercurie are not vſed in Phiſicke, notvvithſtanding it is thought they agree as vvell in nature as qualitie vvith the other kinds of Mercurie.
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Senses relating to plants.
- This herbe is called […] in Engliſh, Good Henry, and Algood: of ſome it is taken for Mercurie.
- Engliſh Mercurie, or good Henrie. […] It is taken for a kinde of Mercurie, but vnproperly, for that it hath no participation vvith Mercurie, either in forme or qualitie, except yee vvil call euery herbe Mercurie vvhich hath povver to looſe the bellie.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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Senses relating to plants.
mercuryverb/ˈmɜːkjʊɹi/
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historicalTo apply or coat (something) with mercury (noun sense 1) or a preparation containing mercury.
- In proceeding to elucidate my process, I will divide it into six parts, the first three of which will be confined to plate cleaning; the fourth to coating with chemicals; the fifth to mercurying and chemicals, and the sixth to finishing with general remarks.
- An image is but an appearance on glass that has been mercuried. It cannot be a friend.
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obsoletehistoricalrareTo apply or coat (something) with mercury (noun sense 1) or a preparation containing mercury.
- […] I knovv, you ha' not a finger, but is as long as my quiuer (couſin Mercvrie) vvhen you pleaſe to extend it. […] Alas, your palmes (Ivpiter knovves) they are as tender as the foot of a foundred nagge, or a ladies face nevv mercuried, the'ile [they'll] touch nothing.
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historicalmedicinesciencesTo administer to (someone) a medicine containing mercury.
- As for bloodletting, their prime cooler, it is inflammatory; and they know it (parrot-wise), for the thumping heart, and bounding pulse, of pashints blid [bled] by butchers in black, and bullocks blid by butchers in blue, prove it; and they have recorded this in all their books; yet stabbed, and bit, and starved, and mercuried, and murdered, on.
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