Translations for „mercurial“ in the English » German Dictionary

mer·cu·rial [mɜ:ˈkjʊəriəl, Am mɜ:rˈkjʊr-] ADJ

mercurial

Quecksilber-

mercurial fig

launisch

mercurial mood

unbeständige Laune

mercurial personality

launischer Charakter

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

mercurial mood

unbeständige Laune

mercurial personality

launischer Charakter

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For researches on blood gases, he designed the mercurial blood-pump that, with various modifications, has come into extensive use.

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The mercurial student began contributing articles and columns on a variety of subjects during law school, and continued in subsequent years.

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A cable system was used to avoid problems with the mercurial river.

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The mercurial piano part is marked "leggieramente", and the two main themes are clever and light-hearted.

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You have the elements lined up against the wall, and in some mercurial way, they slip free and attack you from behind.

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The marketplace was a poor master, he argued, as it was mercurial and mercenary.

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He was a mercurial, inventive off spinner who used flight, guile and turn to dismiss batsman and demanded attacking fields from his captains.

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He was mercurial and so too did his work have that quality.

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He is a mercurial personality given to extreme manifestations of anger, sadness, or joviality, depending on the power of the catalyst provoking them.

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He was not the mercurial, intolerant, zealot that others described.

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