| 词汇 | example_english_curiosity |
| 释义 | Examples of curiosityThese 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. 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 There are, however, some internal curiosities in the amendments that we are discussing, which highlight the problems that exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You could never hope, in my opinion, to sell things like this anywhere in the world except as curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, these statistical curiosities may not prove very much. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are always interested in literary curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the almost curiosities of the situation is that the problem is generally agreed by everybody and the solution is widely agreed by most people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree with him that once the pieces had been manufactured they would be of no value except as curiosities to anybody except the borough itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All kinds of curiosities can be aroused. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are to believe the letters, leaks or whatever we may call them about the future of the rebate system, there will be even greater curiosities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are of course curiosities and anomalies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of the inconvenience of wearing headphones, true binaural recordings have remained laboratory and audiophile curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Scientists and collectors displayed their finds in private cabinets of curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She was described as elegant and engaging in the highest degree and of judicious taste in her remarks and curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. During the trial, defendants answered some questions from judges which were wholly unrelated to the trial and resulted merely from personal curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By the end of this period, artesana was considered to be nothing more than a collection of curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Altogether the account continues this is one of the greatest natural, philosophical and mechanical curiosities which the country can produce. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A number of shrines, dens and other student-built curiosities are scattered around the northern campus. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thoroughly renovated, it was furnished with a graphic studio, a library, printing press and collection of curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His interest is more in the curiosities of nature than in questions of religious or social polity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Preliminary investigation determined that the book was briefly displayed in a showcase devoted to rotating samples of curiosities and unusual items in our collection... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A final curiosity of the analysis is that a hypothesis that is so simple to state has proven to be so difficult to test. In the 20th century, curiosity and the outward urge took astrobiology and popular culture to infinity, and beyond. He is not on display in order to satisfy our intellectual curiosity. The need for information was not a matter of idle curiosity. Their curiosity had been supplanted by real experience so that they were no longer simply hearing, but actively listening. A great walker, he loved roaming in the woods, often returning with natural curiosities, including birds' eggs and nests, of which he made crude drawings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Conventional architectural discourse teaches you to repress curiosity about the surface of things, to focus on the inner logic of an idea. The first draft is always the best, because that's the one you write with maximum passion and curiosity. A combination of experience and curiosity is necessary. He had a cabinet of curiosities and was interested in physics and mathematics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One consequence of this development was that a new layer was added to the process of curiosity. However, the various centres are described in a way that leaves the reader fascinated but full of curiosity about the actual rituals performed in them. Finally, a last point, just out of curiosity: the authors mention several times that there were production effects in their elicitation task. Improvisation, for me, begins as a looking-forward-state-of-curiosity, coupled with an inwardly decided-on absence of fear. Such engineering might be done for gain to others, for example, to satisfy intellectual curiosity. Curiosity and the desire for effective control of nature to satisfy our purposes has driven humankind to seek explanations. The role of curiosity and imagination in ethics and medicine (forthcoming). Parents from different cultures sustain their children's curiosity in different ways. There was something about the building simultaneously inducing curiosity and anxiety. What becomes identified or understood as the self of self-regulation is thus inexorably intertwined with that vital activity characterized by interest, curiosity, and coordinated striving. However, methods that provoke farmers' curiosity are more likely to yield a positive response, because particularly poor farmers are naturally risk-averse. Instead, it provides an idiosyncratic (and somewhat old-fashioned) account, which is likely to become regarded as a curiosity, rather than a benchmark for future work. Such unexpected forms of the ordinal numerals naturally arouse one's curiosity. As her energy, scientific curiosity and productivity continue unabated, this artificial milestone will surely be a surprise to many. He has developed a number of systems that exhibit situatedness and curiosity. In other cases a drug may be taken out of curiosity but it is taken subsequently because it fulfils an important psychological need. The singular would give way to the regular, and curiosity would defer to utility. The combination of melodramatic pathos and ethnographic curiosity had an unquestionably broad marketability, and not just for theatre. Other than idle curiosity there is no reason why such a reader should today read the texts of natural sciences. The researcher-curiosity process is a standard research funding process in which the funding is responsive to research suggested by research teams. Cabinets of curiosities would often serve scientific advancement when images of their contents were published. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. No longer a fable of antique curiosity, the riddle expressed the urgent need for reform. Carbenes have some practical utility in organic synthesis but carbene analogs are mostly laboratory curiosities only investigated in academia. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The answer that it was "out of a sudden, casual curiosity" will not do. They shared with the curiosity cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a fascination with the anomalous, the hybrid, and the grotesque. Described as mysterious and beautiful, the caverns feature guided tours of the so-called miracle mile of active living formations, spring-fed pools, and other curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The motivations have been varied: curiosity and the search for knowledge, the promise of riches, population expansion, and nationalism. As for themselves, these respondents might describe their seasonal migration in terms of imagination, curiosity, initiative and excitement. If they provide candidate mechanisms, they are a contribution; otherwise a curiosity. Now that the voice appears as a form of evidence, a desire to know - a hermeneutic curiosity - begins to characterise its reception. The latter seems to have curiosity value, but we stress that in this case the nonlinearities in (2.2a) annihilate each other. Questions are the essence of research, and it takes curiosity to generate those all-important questions. Along with curiosity it is an incitement for wanting to participate, provided that the action invested results in a perceivable stimulus. They are not the rightful owners either, but are simply looking into them out of curiosity. The museum also has a period room with cabinets of curiosities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the case of epistemic virtues - curiosity, open-mindedness, diligence, or discernment - this seems unproblematic. The series is intended to interest adults and young people in history by compressing many facts and curiosities into 192 pages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most studies of primate frugivory originated from a curiosity about their diets and nutritional requirements. From early times shells have been valued as curiosities and for their extraordinary forms. The old photos are curiosities, but sometimes more recent ones would have been better. At the same time, trivial anecdotes and tales of curiosities from abroad were also included. Good marriages are presented as just as much of an aberration in that they are portrayed as curiosities, as objects on display. The most common results, then, are books that are something like dictionaries, something like encyclopedias and, often, something like cabinets of curiosities. He had access, in fact, to a large number of musical curiosities. On the way to the first rejection we find some curiosities. However, most of the informants rejected these kinds of ringing tones, considering them as curiosities. Privatization involved incorporation into, not excision from, the market for meat, trophies and curiosities, and game animals were not alone in their commodification. By now, however, the reader less than enthusiastic about theatrical curiosities and anomalies is ready for my question. To consider them mere curiosities outside the paradigm wastes resources and prolongs suffering. One could also visit the many museums increasingly devoted to displaying collections and curiosities. The old romances - which now began to be available again in something like their original form - were not just to be considered as grotesque curiosities from the distant past. Historic places can be presented as image or text, they have been fixed into monuments or museums and have become curiosities for passengers, travellers, and tourists. 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. |
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