| 单词 | curiosity |
| 释义 | curiosity (once / 145 pages) n Curiosity is the urge you feel to know more about something. If you find a diary in a coffee shop, curiosity will make you want to look inside — but respect for the writer's privacy may convince you not to. Curiosity is the state of being curious: inquisitive, wondering, ready to poke around and figure something out. The word used to mean "very, very careful," and only in the last few hundred years turned into a word expressing the desire to know more. Maybe that's because when you're poking around in secret business, you need to be very, very careful. We also call weird things curiosities, like a phone shaped like a duck, or a shark in a jar. WORD FAMILYcuriosity: curiosities+/curious: curiosity, curiouser, curiousest, curiously, curiousness, incurious, overcurious/incurious: incuriously USAGE EXAMPLESElectronic toys and games played outside school plus the availability of knockoff German army clothes may stoke curiosity about the Nazis, Liang said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) This was an exercise in more than just curiosity. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) But that information would need lots of interpretive work to produce anything more than anecdotal curiosities. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a state in which you want to learn more about something Syn|Hypo|Hyper wonder desire to know, lust for learning, thirst for knowledge curiosity that motivates investigation and study interest, involvementa sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something curiousness, inquisitivenessa state of active curiosity enthusiasma lively interest concernsomething that interests you because it is important or affects you nosiness, prying, snoopinessoffensive inquisitiveness cognitive state, state of mind the state of a person's cognitive processes 2n something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting Syn|Hypo|Hyper curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot miscellaneous curios collectable, collectiblethings considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) collector's item, piece de resistance, showpiecethe outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke(Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket rariora(plural) rare collector's items object, physical object a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow |
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