mercurial

英 [mɜːˈkjʊəriəl]

美 [mɜːrˈkjʊriəl]

adj.  多变的; 变幻莫测的; 活泼的; 机智的; 含水银的; 水银的

复数：mercurials　

GRE

BNC.19853 / COCA.21807

牛津词典

adj.

• 多变的；变幻莫测的
  often changing or reacting in a way that is unexpected
  1. Emily's mercurial temperament made her difficult to live with.
     埃米莉脾气反复无常，很难与她相处。
• 活泼的；机智的
  lively and quick
  1. a brilliant, mercurial mind
     敏捷而富有才智的头脑
• 含水银的；水银的
  containing mercury

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 善变的;变化无常的;难以预测的
  If you describe someone asmercurial, you mean that they frequently change their mind or mood without warning.
  1. ...his mercurial temperament.
     他那反复无常的脾气

英英释义

adj

• liable to sudden unpredictable change
  1. erratic behavior
  2. fickle weather
  3. mercurial twists of temperament
  4. a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
  Synonym:erraticficklequicksilver(a)
• relating to or containing or caused by mercury
  1. mercurial preparations
  2. mercurial sore mouth

双语例句

• He is a complicated man-moody, mercurial, with a melancholy streak.
  他是一个性格复杂的人喜怒无常、复多变、些忧郁寡欢。
• This article described the value distributed version control can offer you and some of the differences between the three main options, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar.
  本文讨论了分布式版本控制能够提供的价值，比较了三种主流工具Git、Mercurial和Bazaar之间的差异。
• History preservation during copy/ move operations: Mercurial's copy and move commands both preserve complete history information, while Git does not preserve history in either case.
  在复制/移动操作期间保存历史：Mercurial的copy和move命令都保存完整的历史信息，而Git在这两种情况下不保存历史。
• If this is your first Mercurial project, you must provide some basic information so that Mercurial can identify the user who is committing those changes.
  如果这是您的第一个Mercurial项目，那么必须提供一些基本信息，让Mercurial能够识别提交这些更改的用户。
• The latter is handy when creating a Mercurial repository for an existing codebase.
  在为现有的代码库创建Mercurial存储库时，后一种做法很方便。
• He was again at his mercurial best when Bolton came to Old Trafford.
  在主场战胜博尔顿的比赛中他也有很好的表现。
• Their attitudes embody the extremes of nature, mercurial and intense.
  它们的形态包含了全部自然天性、活泼和有力量的一切。
• Conceivably, the mercurial Mr Kim might suddenly try to ditch China and re-embrace South Korea.
  可以想象，一向多变的金正恩或许会突然试图抛弃中国、向韩国重新示好。
• For Mercurial, a popular free and paid hosting site is Bitbucket.
  对于Mercurial，流行的免费和付费托管站点是Bitbucket。
• We're all aware of how mercurial he can be.
  我们也非常清楚他有多聪明。