1. The mercury is rising.
    温度正在上升；天气好起来了；情绪好起来了。

1. He has no mercury in him.
    他没有精神。

2. mercury

2. The mercury dropped last night.
    昨夜气温下降了。

1. 汞：经过数年的西医检查,最后在血液里发现有重金属铅(Lead)汞(Mercury)超标,属于蓄积中毒. 化验减肥药中有微量的汞和铅,并不会超过美国食品和药品管理局的规定,调查其他服同样减肥药的人,并没有脱发的现象;又在患者居住地区的水源中发现微量的重金属,

2. 汞,水银：又例如我刚才所说的:中国古书把水银形容为河上美女,这是很漂亮的比喻;但如果汞(水银)(mercury)没有一个化学符号(Hg),今天就没那麼容易写出化学方程式,没有科学词汇,科学传播便受制.

1. 水银;汞
    Mercury is a silver-coloured liquid metal that is used especially in thermometers and barometers.

1. temperature measured by a mercury thermometer

    e.g. the mercury was falling rapidly

2. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element
    the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

    Synonym: quicksilverhydrargyrumHgatomic number 80