It seemed as if we'd plunged into a pool of quicksilver.

真以，我们是在银中游泳了。

What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few drops of hartshorn, there is no telling.

，东西究竟是什么，是是银精，还是几滴鹿茸精，上来了。

Mercury is the only metal that's a liquid at room temperature, which is why it's sometimes called quicksilver — which comes from the Old English for “living silver”, not the X-Men.

汞是唯一一种在室温下呈液态的金属，这就是为什么它有时被称为银的原因——它来自古英语，意为“活银”，是“X战警”。