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单词 quicksilver
释义
quick·sil·ver (kwĭksĭlvər)
n.
See mercury.
adj.
Unpredictable; mercurial: "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" (Sven Birkerts).

[Middle English, from Old English cwicseolfor, living silver (translation of Latin argentum vīvum) : cwic, cwicu, alive; see gwei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + seolfor, silver; see SILVER.]
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