| 单词 | 'satiable curiosity |
| 释义 | > as lemmas'satiable curiosity = insatiable adj. Chiefly in 'satiable curiosity (sometimes in the playfully altered form 'satiable curtiosity, with allusion to Kipling's use in quot. 1900). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > uneasy or restless desire > [adjective] > unsatisfied > insatiable unfillinga1300 unfillablea1340 unsatiable1382 insatiablea1420 insaturablec1425 unstanchable1426 insatiate1509 unsatiate1528 unsaturable1535 unquenchable1538 unsatisfiable1539 quenchless1557 unpleasable1561 inexpleble1569 slakeless1596 abarstic1623 sateless1628 unexpliable1658 voracious1712 omnivorous1791 unslakable1820 appeaseless1837 unsatable1850 'satiable1900 1900 R. Kipling in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 3/1 There was one Elephant..—an Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity [sic], and that means he asked ever so many questions. 1907 Washington Post 5 Aug. 11/ When ‘kiddie’ saw some wasps hanging over a wet spot between tracks in the terminal station his ‘satiable curiosity’ couldn't be kept under. 1912 Logansport (Indiana) Times 13 Sept. Women have been blessed with that ‘satiable curtiosity’ ever since our mother Eve bit that apple long ago. 1929 Theatre Arts Monthly July 550 Out of the inferiority complexes of the amateur [actor], good may come... He has a satiable desire to learn. 1963 ‘L. Egan’ Run to Evil i. 6 Talk about the Elephant's Child... Nobody could really dislike the Brandon boy, even with his 'satiable curiosity. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Mag.) 26 Let's go settle the matter of Tess's 'satiable curiosity. < as lemmas |
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