curiosity
美 [?kj?ri?ɑs?ti]
英 [?kj??ri??s?ti] 
- n.好奇心;求知欲;珍品;罕見而有趣之物
- 網絡好奇號;有好奇心;火星探測車好奇號
詞形變化
復數:curiosities 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
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. 兒童對一切事物都顯露出好奇心。 |
| a certain curiosity to see what would happen next 有點想知道下一步會發生什么事的好奇心 |
| The letter wasn't addressed to me but I opened it out of curiosity . 那封信不是寫給我的,然而我卻出于好奇把它拆開了。 |
| His answer did not satisfy my curiosity at all. 他的答復絲毫沒有滿足我的好奇心。 |
| Sophie's curiosity was aroused by the mysterious phone call. 那個神秘的電話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) . “你為什么要問?”“哦,只是好奇而已。” |
2. | [c] 罕見而有趣之物;奇物;珍品an unusual and interesting thing |
| The museum is full of historical curiosities. 這座博物館有許多珍奇歷史文物。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
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,丈夫難忍好奇,試圖趁著妻子睡覺時掀開面紗,看一下她的臉。
Second, psychology students are in many adventures, the season of dreams, to think of Love, with a strong curiosity.
獵奇心理中學生正處在多夢的季節、多思的年華,具有強烈的好奇心。
and it may be that she was merely bored with her husband and went to Strickland out of a callous curiosity.
可能她不過對自己的丈夫感到厭倦,只是出于好奇心(并無任何熱情在內)才去我的思特里克蘭德。
Should I try to fit in a bit better? Or must I remain an ageing curiosity, a sort of embarrassing elderly relative? Help.
我應該試著合群一點嗎?還是該繼續當一個老古董,一種類似于年長親戚的尷尬人物?幫幫忙!
'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,聽說過,可是,不知道奔馳長什么樣。這車多少錢?’杰克的好奇心轉向車子的品牌。
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.
她顯得對這個跟她丈夫有過一年多風流韻事后謀殺了他的女人沒有任何好奇。
He opened the wooden box out of curiosity, and found very surprisingly it was full of his mother's old photos.
受好奇心的驅使,他打開了這個木盒子,驚訝地發現全是他母親的舊照片。
She did not propose to gratify Gloria's curiosity any further.
她打算不再繼續滿足格洛西亞的好奇心。
Curiosity got the best of Great grandma and she decided to follow this strange man outside to see where he had gone.
好奇心占據了曾祖母的內心,她決定去看個明白。
In a way he felt new-bom, like the colt Shem had brought him to see last spring, all shaky legs and curiosity.
他覺得自己仿佛得到了新生,就象去年春天,Shem帶他去看的那只小馬,四肢顫抖,充滿了好奇。
But she left us a passion for the pure knowable world and she filled me with a curiosity which has never left.
但她留給我們的熱情和純可知,她令我感到好奇,從來沒有離開過。
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錢。
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,用一把煤鏟的角把木板撬起。
The deal with South Africa's largest lender suggested Africa was no longer a curiosity but a potentially big source of profits.
與南非最大的貸款機構的這樁生意說明,非洲不再是新奇之地,而是一大塊潛在的利潤來源。
Just to satisfy my curiosity, how much did you pay for your car?
我只是出于好奇,請問你買這輛車花。
She'd gone there just out of curiosity. Pubs, in her mind, were rather mysterious, and a little scary.
當初,她也只是出于好奇去了那里。在她看來,酒吧很神秘,甚至讓她有些膽小。
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.
海軍一名飛行員在例行飛翔途中,看見海面上似乎有浮油,微覺奇怪,忍不住稍稍低飛察看。
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,當他發現他沒有再遭遇任何攻擊來騷擾他,他就非常好奇的準備再一次旅程。
He said it would have been unusual for the animals not to show curiosity and that the best reaction was to "shoo" them.
他說,動物不表現出好奇就不正常了,而對此最好的反應是“嚇跑”它們。
The curiosity of the room was that it had no windows.
這個房間的奇特之處就在于它沒有窗戶。
Once escaped from the reach of his mother's recalling voice, he thought he might venture to indulge his curiosity.
他覺得現在已經走出了他母親叫喚聲的范圍,理該滿足一下自己的好奇心了。
For thousands of years men have been wandering around-for pleasure, for profit, or to satisfy their curiosity.
幾千年來,人們為了享樂,掙錢或為了滿足好奇心而到處漫游。
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錢。
As a gentleman himself, he thought it was only impertinent curiosity to ask where any other gentleman lived.
作為一個上等人,他認為,打聽別人住在哪里是無禮的舉動,是多管閑事。
Her curiosity was so widely awakened by the phenomenon that she sat up in bed, and started steadily at the shine.
她的好奇心被這一奇景大大地喚醒了,于是她從床上坐了起來,目不轉睛地看著那閃閃的光亮。
His curiosity got the better of him.
好奇心使得他不禁要問。
A lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the compliment was so little returned that he had never there in his life.
很多人極想見一見他,然而這種恭維沒有得到回響,他一次也不曾來過。
With the exception of Sam-the only one Celia had met previously-the others regarded her with frank curiosity.
除了薩姆,別人西莉亞以前都沒見過。這些人看著西利亞,顯然感到蹊蹺。
His answer did not satisfy my curiosity at all.
他的答復絲毫沒有滿足我的好奇心。
Kennedy had a natural curiosity about Khrushchev.
肯尼迪對赫魯曉夫自然抱有一種好奇心。
Most mathematicians regarded non-Enclidean geometry as a logical curiosity.
大多數的數學家把非Enclid幾何當作邏輯上的珍奇玩藝。
They burned with curiosity to find out what kind of particles they were.
他們好奇得很,渴望查明它們是哪一類粒子。
I'll keep it as a curiosity.
我要留著他當古董呢。
Same with the children around us, they had no super power to save the world but had children's nature of purity, fun and curiosity.
他們和我們周圍的孩子一樣,沒有什么超能力足以拯救世界,但他們有孩子純真愛玩好奇的天性。
He watched her with considerable curiosity at times, for she was still attractive in a way and men looked at her.
有時候他懷著好奇心觀察著她,因為她風韻猶存,還有男人會朝她注目。
When curiosity seems to be getting the upper hand, remember that "Silence is golden. "
當好奇心蠢蠢欲動時,切記這句話:“沉默是金。”
But then some boys began to glance at me in curiosity, and one of them came over and asked, "Who brought you? "
接著一些孩子開始好奇的打量我,其中一個走上前來問:“誰帶你來的?”
Saying that, she diverted the shrine maiden. From nothing more than simple curiosity, she decided to search for the great fairy here.
這樣說著,她支走了巫女。僅僅是因為簡單的好奇心,她決定開始在這里尋找那個大妖怪。
Children at home should do our best to open up a life of his own little world of learning, best meet the child's curiosity.
在家中應盡力為孩子開辟一個屬于他自己的學習生活小天地,最大限度地滿足孩子的求知欲。
'Your hair wants cutting, ' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.
“你的頭發該剪了。”帽匠好奇地看了愛麗絲一會兒,這是他第一次開口。
Don't worry about what others are thinking of you-their curiosity might have already overshadowed their judgement.
別太在意別人看法,事實可能已被好奇心之浮云遮住。
Eddie felt a lump in his throat, but curiosity got the better of him.
埃迪感覺自己喉嚨發緊,但是好奇心很快戰勝了恐懼。
But, you know, I think reckless curiosity would be what the world needs now, just a little bit.
但,你知道,我想魯莽的好奇心是這個世界現在所需要的,只要一點點。
It's the basis of so much exciting science fiction and the most popular movies ever made. It's just a subject which excites our curiosity.
這是這許多科幻小說和最受歡迎的電影的基礎,是激發我們好奇心的題材。
she had known that the sight of Matthew jaunting off so unaccountably would be too much for her neighbour's curiosity.
馬修莫明其妙地駕車出門這一景象,對她的鄰居的好奇心是個刺激。
For all this, cannot satisfy me with the medical chemistry experiment limited contact in this domain intellectual curiosity.
盡管如此,與醫藥化學實驗有限的接觸并不能滿足我在這個領域的求知欲。
Once escaped from the reach of his mother's recalling voice, he thought he might venture to indulge his curiosity.
他覺得現在已經走出了他母親叫喚聲的范圍,理該滿足一下自己的好奇心了。
And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
我跟著我的好奇心和知覺走,遇到的很多東西后來被證明是無價之寶。
Her grey eyes looked back at me with polite curiosity out of a charming, discontented face.
她迷人但不滿的臉上那灰色眼睛客氣又好奇的回頭看著我。
And much of what I stumbled into by folly wing my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
而且,許多我出于獵奇和直覺而偶然去做的事,后來也變證明是十分值得的。
His eyes lowered against a possible reminder from her that last time they met he had opened himself to her sympathetic curiosity.
他的眼睛壓得低低的躲開了她的目光,那目光可能會提醒他,上次他們倆見面時,他曾對她充滿同情的好奇心敞開了心扉。
The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
就是他的這個秘密像一扇既沒有鎖也沒有鑰匙的門引起了她的好奇心。
The research on coffee shops is an interesting curiosity: coffee retailing seems to be fiercely competitive.
這個問題時,經濟學存在真正的盲點)對咖啡廳的研究是件令人好奇的趣事:咖啡零售業的競爭似乎非常激烈。