| 词汇 | curiosity |
| 释义 | curiosity noun uk /ˌkjʊə.riˈɒs.ə.ti/ us /ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/ curiositynoun (INTEREST)B2[ U ] an eager wish to know or learn about something: 好奇心;求知欲 satisfy someone's curiosity Give your child just enough information to satisfy their curiosity. arouse someone's curiosity The title of the book aroused my curiosity. excite someone's curiosityThe girls had an air of secrecy that excited her curiosity. burn with curiosityI'm burning with curiosity - you must tell me who won!我心急火燎地想知道——你一定要告诉我是谁赢了！ out of curiosity She decided to call her ex-boyfriend out of curiosity.她出于好奇决定给以前的男友打电话。 idle curiosity"Why do you ask?" "Oh, just idle curiosity (= for no particular reason)."“你为什幺要问？”“哦，不过是好奇而已。” Curiosity curiosity killed the catidiom curious curious about something curiously curtain twitcher inquisitive inquisitively inquisitiveness inquisitorial meddlesome nosy parker out of curiosity peeper prurience pruriency quizzically satisfy someone's curiosity stick your nose into somethingidiom stick your snoot in/into (something)idiom thirsty curiositynoun (STRANGE OBJECT)[ C ] something that is interesting because it is rare and unusual: 奇品，珍品；新奇罕有的事物 Cars like mine are curiosities nowadays.像我拥有的这种车如今实属罕见了。 curiosity value I kept this old pot for its curiosity value (= the interest it has because it is unusual).我留着这个旧罐子，因为它很特别。 Exceptional qualities, things and people a gift from the godsidiom be a oneidiom character distinction distinctiveness enfant terrible favoured gift have-a-go hero hero individual national treasure nonpareil personal touch rare breed right the chosen fewidiom the right stuffidiom the X factor uniqueness Idiomcuriosity killed the cat curiosity | American Dictionarycuriosity noun us/ˌkjʊər·iˈɑs·ɪ·t̬i/ curiositynoun (INTEREST)[ U ] an eager desire to know or learn about something: Just out of curiosity I decided to go through the files. curiositynoun (STRANGE OBJECT)[ C ] something that is interesting because it is rare and unusual: The museum had a collection of mummies and Egyptian curiosities. Examples of curiositycuriosity The ' contents ' runs to fifteen pages of subject headings: these include descriptions of localities, philological discussions, accounts of curiosities, geological analysis, and medicinal recipes. Appropriately enough, both the monstrosities and the curiosities, both the unhappy and the happy couples are put on display, in a kind of freak show or curio cabinet, respectively. They used, by means of skilfully putting these animals together, to make curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To my mind it is the right place, for some of them are decided curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are other examples of irregularities and curiosities in the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us have computers by all means but books too, and books not as curiosities from a former age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am afraid that today most people still look upon museums as collections of curiosities and the staff as mainly people who look after them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may have imported some goods, but in the main they were curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The museum of political curiosities is full of international organisations that were perfect but perished because they tried to do too much. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To-day, however, there are processes operated and gases emitted by industry which, if known, were at best chemical curiosities forty-five years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the curiosities of accounting techniques is depreciation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They remained curiosities in geological museums until 1957 and 1958. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that fairyland of a pier is one of our architectual curiosities, it is surely one of our architectural wonders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can only regard those opinions as psychological curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The undertakings were not fulfilled, and we had two additional curiosities that went the other way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of curiosity These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcuriositycuriosityThese are words often used in combination with curiosity. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. historical curiosity These medications had far more pervasive effects of might be implied by the morbid historicalcuriosity that they inspire today. idle curiosity The need for information was not a matter of idlecuriosity. insatiable curiosity They must have insatiablecuriosity. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with curiosity |
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