现在常见的温度计由一个玻璃管和一个位于底部的贮液槽组成，贮液槽中的水银或酒精沿玻璃管上升形成液柱。

A thermometer often now, and more often back in the early 1800s, consists of a glass tube up which a column of mercury or alcohol can travel from a reservoir at the base.

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不过，在可预见的未来，水银柱将继续上升，人类必须尽可能地忍受该问题。

For the foreseeable future, though, the mercury will continue to rise, and the human race must live with the problem as best it can.

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我见到水银柱在上升。大概咱们终于能有一阵子好天气了。

I see the mercury is going up. Perhaps we're going to get a spell of good weather at last.

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