| 单词 | curious |
| 释义 | cu·ri·ous 1. a. archaic b. obsolete c. archaic d. now dialect 2. a. < a rationalist who was curious and had a sort of scientific interest in life — D.H.Lawrence > < a man, like a cat, is curious about his environment and keeps investigating it — Stuart Chase > b. < an apprentice curious of his master's secrets > often < curious about the neighbors' doings > c. archaic 3. a. now dialect b. archaic 4. a. archaic b. < whatever we're thoroughly unfamiliar with is apt to seem to us odd … or curious — J.L.Lowes > c. of a book Synonyms: < a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven — Benjamin Jowett > < anyone who is prematurely curious to see the difference in treatment between different centuries — Henry Adams > < it was as if listening to her I had taken advantage of having seen her poor, bewildered, scared soul without its veils. But I was curious too … I was anxious, anxious to know a little more — Joseph Conrad > inquisitive implies habitual and perhaps impertinent search for information, sometimes about matters secret and unrevealed < we were in plain sight of everybody passing; and therefore we had no lack of visitors among such an idle, inquisitive set as the Tahitians — Herman Melville > < well, this Elsie, she was a bit inquisitive, as girls are, and one day … she managed to take a peep through a keyhole or something of that kind, and caught the old lady just in the act of putting the stuff away — Dorothy Sayers > prying implies officious meddling < in Texas the fearful, thirsty citizen may be afraid to have a drink on his front porch because of the prying eyes of his bluenosed neighbor across the hedge — Stanley Walker > < and down in one corner of the chest, safe from the prying eyes of my messmates, was a velvet-lined box from Maiden Lane. It contained a bracelet and necklace — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > To this snoopy adds the suggestion of slyness or sneaking < the businessman sufficiently snoopy to discover what Jones has saved — Atlantic > nosy, suggesting a dog's procedure, implies desire for full information about any new situation < doesn't want nosy state officials or city slickers prying into its manners and morals — Fortnight > Synonym: see in addition strange. |
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