curiosity
常考释义
1.[u][sing]~ (about sth).~ (to do sth)好奇心;求知欲a strong desire to know about sth
Children show curiosity about everything.儿童对一切事物都显露出好奇心。
a certain curiosity to see what would happen next有点想知道下一步会发生什么事的好奇心
The letter wasn't addressed to me but I opened it out of curiosity .那封信不是写给我的,然而我却出于好奇把它拆开了。
His answer did not satisfy my curiosity at all.他的答复丝毫没有满足我的好奇心。
Sophie's curiosity was aroused by the mysterious phone call.那个神秘的电话引起了索菲的好奇心。
intellectual curiosity求知欲
‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Oh, just idle curiosity ’(= no particular reason) .“你为什么要问?”“哦,只是好奇而已。”
2.[c]罕见而有趣之物;奇物;珍品an unusual and interesting thing
The museum is full of historical curiosities.这座博物馆有许多珍奇历史文物。
One night the husband was overcome by curiosity and tried to lift his wife's veil as she slept to take a look at her face.
一天晚上,丈夫难忍好奇,试图趁着妻子睡觉时掀开面纱,看一下她的脸。
Second, psychology students are in many adventures, the season of dreams, to think of Love, with a strong curiosity.
猎奇心理中学生正处在多梦的季节、多思的年华,具有强烈的好奇心。
and it may be that she was merely bored with her husband and went to Strickland out of a callous curiosity.
可能她不过对自己的丈夫感到厌倦,只是出于好奇心(并无任何热情在内)才去我的思特里克兰德。
Should I try to fit in a bit better? Or must I remain an ageing curiosity, a sort of embarrassing elderly relative? Help.
我应该试着合群一点吗?还是该继续当一个老古董,一种类似于年长亲戚的尴尬人物?帮帮忙!
'Ah, yes, I did. But I never what a Benz looks like. How much is it, may I ask? ' Jack's curiosity transfers to the brands.
‘啊,听说过,可是,不知道奔驰长什么样。这车多少钱?’杰克的好奇心转向车子的品牌。
She indicated no curiosity in the woman who had carried on an affair with her husband for more than a year and then murdered him.
她显得对这个跟她丈夫有过一年多风流韵事后谋杀了他的女人没有任何好奇。
He opened the wooden box out of curiosity, and found very surprisingly it was full of his mother's old photos.
受好奇心的驱使,他打开了这个木盒子,惊讶地发现全是他母亲的旧照片。
She did not propose to gratify Gloria's curiosity any further.
她打算不再继续满足格洛西亚的好奇心。
Curiosity got the best of Great grandma and she decided to follow this strange man outside to see where he had gone.
好奇心占据了曾祖母的内心,她决定去看个明白。
In a way he felt new-bom, like the colt Shem had brought him to see last spring, all shaky legs and curiosity.
他觉得自己仿佛得到了新生,就象去年春天,Shem带他去看的那只小马,四肢颤抖,充满了好奇。
But she left us a passion for the pure knowable world and she filled me with a curiosity which has never left.
但她留给我们的热情和纯可知,她令我感到好奇,从来没有离开过。
He is dying of curiosity to see how much money in my pocket.
他十分好奇地想知道我口袋里究竟有多少钱。
Seized with the joyful curiosity of an overgrown boy , he pried off the board with the corner of his fire- shovel .
他心里喜洋洋的滋生一股大孩子的好奇心,用一把煤铲的角把木板撬起。
The deal with South Africa's largest lender suggested Africa was no longer a curiosity but a potentially big source of profits.
与南非最大的贷款机构的这桩生意说明,非洲不再是新奇之地,而是一大块潜在的利润来源。
Just to satisfy my curiosity, how much did you pay for your car?
我只是出于好奇,请问你买这辆车花。
She'd gone there just out of curiosity. Pubs, in her mind, were rather mysterious, and a little scary.
当初,她也只是出于好奇去了那里。在她看来,酒吧很神秘,甚至让她有些胆小。
A navy pilot on a routine flight had given in to mild curiosity and dipped his aircraft to inspect what he thought was an oil slick.
海军一名飞行员在例行飞翔途中,看见海面上似乎有浮油,微觉奇怪,忍不住稍稍低飞察看。
At the year's end, when he found they had not made any attempt to disturb him, he had the curiosity to make another journey.
到了年尾,当他发现他没有再遭遇任何攻击来骚扰他,他就非常好奇的准备再一次旅程。
He said it would have been unusual for the animals not to show curiosity and that the best reaction was to "shoo" them.
他说,动物不表现出好奇就不正常了,而对此最好的反应是“吓跑”它们。
The curiosity of the room was that it had no windows.
这个房间的奇特之处就在于它没有窗户。
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