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mercurialness

/mer-kyoor-ee-uhl/US // mərˈkyʊər i əl //UK // (mɜːˈkjʊərɪəl) //

无常,无情,善变,无常性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
    • : animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
    • : pertaining to, containing, or caused by the metal mercury.
    • : of or relating to the god Mercury.
    • : of or relating to the planet Mercury.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Pharmacology. a preparation of mercury used as a drug.

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Examples

  • To be clear, the Nets face their own questions, most of which trace back to Durant’s decision to partner with the mercurial Irving.

  • Jason Roe, Gaspar’s mercurial consultant, moved as did Sage Naumann, a former staffer for the party.

  • While she’s proven her loyalty to Orbán, Hungary’s mercurial leader is known for reshuffling and throwing out politicians at his convenience.

  • An astounding three-out-of-four of America’s big cap stalwarts—that typically pride themselves on tracing the path ahead—deemed the future so mercurial that they gave up.

  • Stars, heat and humidity, and the temperament of mercurial elders in one’s family have to align to set the wedding date in India.

  • Since the recession, a mercurial job market has made it difficult for many vets to find steady employment.

  • I think that Michael would hate to be falsely remembered as perfect in retrospect—he was mercurial, impulsive, and intense.

  • They are superstitious, violent, passionate, mercurial, and secretive, with a greater belief in dragons than in any saint.

  • But Chechnya has become a republic of fear, the fiefdom of one man: its mercurial 36-year-old president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

  • But I press on, because my mercurial editor is emailing me, “When are you filing that bitcoin story!??”

  • Quentin Gray's mercurial color deserted him, and he turned to Seton a face grown suddenly pale.

  • The usual excited happiness was less obvious, he thought, than usual, the mercurial gaiety wholly absent.

  • The extreme heat was rather more intense than that of the preceding day, the mercurial column standing for a time at 97 degrees.

  • Of the influence formerly attributed to the planets, traces survive in such epithets as mercurial, jovial, saturnine.

  • Of the many forms of mercurial barometer, that perhaps known as Fortins is the best.