单词	quicksilver
释义	quicksilverquick‧sil‧ver /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvə $ -ər/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Hunt, the team's quicksilver guard, slipped in and made the basket. the quicksilver beauty of Khan's singing EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Beckett's playing is all quicksilver and lyricism with an often sardonic edge. His eyes had lost their quicksilver fear. In fact, its core is crystal, shining night and day, veined with quicksilver and gold. It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and, apart from that, the box was only just long enough to take it. The essential Gielgud was all quicksilver intelligence. The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver. The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver. Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver. 1 old use the metal mercury2 literary something that is like quicksilver changes or moves quickly in a way that you do not expect:  His mood changed like quicksilver.—quicksilver adjective:  his quicksilver temperament
随便看	repressed repression repressive repressively repressiveness reprieve reprimand reprint reprisal reprise reproach reproachful reproachfully reprobate reprocess reproduce reproducible reproduction reproductive reproof reprove reproving reprovingly reptile reptilian

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