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单词 curiosity
释义
curiosity
noun
uk
/ˌkjʊə.riˈɒs.ə.ti/us
/ˌkjʊr.iˈɑː.sə.t̬i/

curiositynoun(INTEREST)

B2[U]
aneagerwishtoknoworlearnabout something:
好奇心；求知欲
toarouse/excite/satisfysomeone's curiosity引起／激发／满足某人的好奇心
I'mburningwithcuriosity - you musttellme whowon!我心急火燎地想知道——你一定要告诉我是谁赢了！
Shedecidedtocallher ex-boyfriendout ofcuriosity.她出于好奇决定给以前的男友打电话。
"Why do youask?" "Oh, justidlecuriosity(= for noparticularreason)."“你为什幺要问？”“哦，不过是好奇而已。”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Curiosity
  • curiosity killed the catidiom
  • curious
  • curiously
  • curtain twitcher
  • curtain twitching
  • inquisitive
  • inquisitively
  • inquisitiveness
  • inquisitorial
  • meddlesome
  • nosy
  • nosy parker
  • peeper
  • prurience
  • prurient
  • quizzically
  • snoot
  • stickyournose intosomethingidiom
  • stickyoursnoot in/into (something)idiom
  • thirsty
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curiositynoun(STRANGE OBJECT)

[C]
something that isinterestingbecause it israreandunusual:
奇品，珍品；新奇罕有的事物
Cars like mine are curiositiesnowadays.像我拥有的这种车如今实属罕见了。
Ikeptthisoldpotforitscuriosityvalue(= theinterestit has because it isunusual).我留着这个旧罐子，因为它很特别。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
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Idiom

curiosity killed the cat
(Definition ofcuriosityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

curiosity| American Dictionary

curiosity
noun
us
/ˌkjʊər·iˈɑs·ɪ·t̬i/

curiositynoun(INTEREST)

[U]
aneagerdesiretoknoworlearnabout something:
Just out of curiosity Idecidedto go through thefiles.

curiositynoun(STRANGE OBJECT)

[C]
something that isinterestingbecause it israreandunusual:
Themuseumhad acollectionofmummiesandEgyptiancuriosities.
(Definition ofcuriosityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcuriosity

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The ' contents ' runs to fifteen pages of subject headings: these include descriptions of localities, philological discussions, accounts of curiosities, geological analysis, and medicinal recipes.
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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.
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They used, by means of skilfully putting these animals together, to make curiosities.
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To my mind it is the right place, for some of them are decided curiosities.
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There are other examples of irregularities and curiosities in the report.
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Let us have computers by all means but books too, and books not as curiosities from a former age.
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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.
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We may have imported some goods, but in the main they were curiosities.
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The museum of political curiosities is full of international organisations that were perfect but perished because they tried to do too much.
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To-day, however, there are processes operated and gases emitted by industry which, if known, were at best chemical curiosities forty-five years ago.
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One of the curiosities of accounting techniques is depreciation.
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They remained curiosities in geological museums until 1957 and 1958.
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If that fairyland of a pier is one of our architectual curiosities, it is surely one of our architectural wonders.
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We can only regard those opinions as psychological curiosities.
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The undertakings were not fulfilled, and we had two additional curiosities that went the other way.
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Collocationswithcuriosity

curiosity

These are words often used in combination withcuriosity.

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historical curiosity
These medications had far more pervasive effects of might be implied by the morbidhistoricalcuriositythat they inspire today.
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idle curiosity
The need for information was not a matter ofidlecuriosity.
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insatiable curiosity
They must haveinsatiablecuriosity.
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