curiosities

英 [ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtiz]

美 [ˌkjʊriˈɑsətiz]

n.  好奇心; 求知欲; 罕见而有趣之物; 奇物; 珍品
curiosity的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 好奇心;求知欲
  Curiosityis a desire to know about something.
  1. Ryle accepted more out of curiosity than anything else...
     赖尔更多的是出于好奇才同意的。
  2. ...an enthusiasm and genuine curiosity about the past...
     对过去的巨大兴趣与真正的好奇
  3. To satisfy our own curiosity we traveled to Baltimore.
     为了满足好奇心，我们去了巴尔的摩。
• N-COUNT 罕见而有趣之物;奇物;珍品
  Acuriosityis something that is unusual, interesting, and fairly rare.
  1. There is much to see in the way of castles, curiosities, and museums...
     可以看到很多城堡、奇珍异品和博物馆。
  2. Reed International is a curiosity in the international world of publishing.
     里德国际公司是国际出版界的一朵奇葩。
• curiosity killed the cat→ see:cat

双语例句

• When the sites were regarded as technology curiosities, there was no thought of charging people to use them.
  当网站被认为是技术的珍品时，也没有人想到利用网站赚取利润。
• O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum;
  信徒阿，我求你不要把上帝的应许，当作展览会里的古玩；
• I had brought over a few curiosities, among which the principal was a purse made of the asbestos, which purifies by fire.
  我从美洲带来了几件珍品，其中最主要的是一个用石棉制成的荷包，这个荷包要用火来洗涤。
• We were all born with a gift to give in life, one which informs all of our desires, interests, passions and curiosities.
  我们生来就随身带着一件东西，这件东西指示着我们的渴望、兴趣、热情以及好奇心，这就是使命。
• They are dismissed as automotive curiosities that failed to capture public imagination, while creating an effect exactly opposite to the one they were designed for: damaging brands rather than lifting them.
  有的时候，它们的设计无法抓住人们的好奇心，不仅不会提升品牌口碑，反而会产生截然相反的效果，对品牌形象造成损害。
• It has rooms full of new and old books, a delightful caf and what can best be described as a small exhibition of curiosities on the first floor.
  它有好几个堆满了新书和旧书的房间，还有一间怡人的小咖啡馆和一个展览厅。
• Whether these developments continue to serve as curiosities for out-of-town visitors or succeed in becoming real, thriving communities remains to be seen.
  这些开发项目将依然仅仅能吸引外地游客的好奇心，还是能成为真正的繁荣社区，仍须拭目以待。
• By contrast, mere numerical findings as such, apart from the guiding interest which we have discussed here, rightly count as empty curiosities that satisfy neither a theoretical nor a practical concern.
  反之，如果只是些数字的堆集，没有这里所提及的指导观点，那末就可以有理由算作无聊的玩艺儿，既不能满足理论的兴趣，也不能满足实际的要求。
• Then he flew against the window-pane, and was seen and admired by those in the room, who caught him, and stuck him on a pin, in a box of curiosities.
  他撞着窗玻璃飞，被人观看和欣赏，然后就被穿在一根针上，藏在一个小古董匣子里面。
• Some of the modern cures offered by slick salespeople, he says, are just as empty and worthless as the old curiosities that he's collected in his museum.
  他说，有些巧舌如簧的推销员所提供的现代疗法，跟他在博物馆里收集的那些老古董一样愚不可及，毫无价值。