Curiosity
[kjʊərɪ'ɒsɪtɪ] or [,kjʊrɪ'ɑsəti]
解释:
(n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
(n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
(n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
昌西整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Inquisitiveness.[2]. Phenomenon, wonder, marvel, rarity, sight, spectacle.
伊莱录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Inquisitiveness, interest, wonder, marvel, interrogativeness, rarity,phenomenon, celebrity, oddity, lion
ANT:Indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction, absence, weed, drug, dirt,cipher, bagatelle, song
录入:露西
娱乐性解释：
n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
录入:基思
例句:
- Take me with you, I said, just to gratify my curiosity. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The three looked at me, but not distrustfully; I felt there was no suspicion in their glances: there was more of curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- People admired the machines as a curiosity, but none were induced to buy them or help him pecuniarily. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- You have no idea how these enigmatic speeches pique my curiosity. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Well, well, he excites my curiosity, and I must really know before I leave him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Mr. Pickwick eyed the old man with great curiosity, and the remainder of the company smiled, and looked on in silence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Tis a cousin of Miss Vye's, come to take Charley's place from curiosity. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Mrs. Fisher, moreover, had no embarrassing curiosity. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- In that country, books are so common that it is really no curiosity to see one. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It was referred to as a curiosity in the _Philosophical Transactions_ in 1747. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Opening this piece of paper in the next pause, the counsel looked with great attention and curiosity at the prisoner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- With some curiosity as to what could have sent a brother medico to us at such an hour, I followed Holmes into our sanctum. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- If the Aristotelian conception represented just Aristotle's personal view, it would be a more or less interesting historical curiosity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They're curiosities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- They introduced me to some gentlemen from the country, who went to Chelsea by water, to see the college and Don Saltero's curiosities. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- On the other side, after having seen all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Some of the pictures of the Saviour were curiosities in their way. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I desired leave of this prince to see the curiosities of the island, which he was graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my tutor to attend me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- At that time motors were curiosities. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- One of our curiosities mustn't be cold when we have it in our power to warm her up comfortable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I had brought over a few curiosities, among which the principal was a purse made of the _asbestos_, which purifies by fire. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Several curiosities have been lately dug up near the wall, as well as at the ancient station of Habitancum. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
整理:马提