mercury是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水银， 汞，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel consulted his barometer, and found that the depression of the mercury corresponded to an elevation of 11,000 feet, only 910 meters lower than Mont Blanc.
-- McNabbs was right, as the thermometer proved, for it was plunged into the kettle when the water boiled, and the mercury only rose to 99 degrees.
-- "He is so DISTRAIT that he thinks he is at St. Petersburg," said the Major, when he saw the geographer wrapped in an immense great-coat, as if the mercury had been frozen in the thermometer.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty chari-oteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people.
-- He sprang towards Acamas, but Acamas did not stand his ground, and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flock-master Phorbas, whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth than any oth-er of the Trojans.
-- Juno, Pal-las Minerva, earth-encircling Neptune, Mercury bringer of good luck and excellent in all cunning all these joined the host that came from the ships; with them also came Vulcan in all his glory, limping, but yet with his thin legs plying lustily under him.
-- Apollo with his arrows took his stand to face King Neptune, while Minerva took hers against the god of war; the archer-goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo, stood to face Juno; Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto, while the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against Vulcan.
-- The gods would have Mercury slayer of Argus steal the body, but in furtherance of our peace and amity henceforward, I will concede such honour to your son as I will now tell you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long surges which indicated a tempest.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- coal and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate, and lead for the shot, and the captain will make us first-rate guns."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised?
-- Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If she only had a servant or two it would be all right,' said Amy, coming out of the parlor, where she had been try-ing to decide whether the bronze Mercury looked best on the whatnot or the mantlepiece.
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