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词汇 example_english_idle-curiosity
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idle curiosity

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meanings of idleand curiosity


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idle
adjective
uk /ˈaɪ.dəl/ us /ˈaɪ.dəl/
not working or ...
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curiosity
noun
uk /ˌkjʊə.riˈɒs.ə.ti/ us /ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/
an eager wish to know or learn ...
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Examples of idle curiosity


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The need for information was not a matter of idlecuriosity.
Other than idlecuriosity there is no reason why such a reader should today read the texts of natural sciences.
This important and difficult book has made this reader want to understand such riddles better - and not out of idlecuriosity.
An inquiry into institutions may supply the analytical knowledge essential to a program of social control or it may do no more than set adventures for idlecuriosity.
It is not a matter of idlecuriosity.
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It might be an interest that derived from a loan, and there is no need to prove interest apart from idlecuriosity.
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I would like to reaffirm what was said in correspondence, that it would not be done out of idlecuriosity.
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Idlecuriosity and gossip do not warrant the protection which is afforded by qualified privilege.
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In some cases they attend out of idlecuriosity.
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It is often only out of idlecuriosity.
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Is it idlecuriosity, or is it to help with the arithmetic?
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We do not ask this only out of idlecuriosity.
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It is hard to believe that that is simply idlecuriosity.
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Sometimes quite important matters have a habit of revealing themselves from inquiries prompted by idlecuriosity.
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Is not this question put merely in order to satisfy idlecuriosity?
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But yet one of the few occasions when idlecuriosity gets what it deserves.
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But one can only deplore the fact that people should allow idlecuriosity to permit them to get in the way of operations vital to the saving of life.
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This is not just idlecuriosity.
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I should perhaps add to satisfy any idlecuriosity that the fact that we are proposing this change does not indicate any firm intention to make use of it.
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In the beginning, he is a schoolboy, with no greater concerns than boredom at school and an idlecuriosity about girls.
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