curiosity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkjʊə.ɹiˈɒs.ə.ti/|/ˌkjɔːɹiˈɒs.ə.ti/|/-ɪ.ti/    美 /ˌkjʊɹ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/|/ˌkjɝ.iˈɑ.sə.ti/|/-ɪ.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. uncountable
    — It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, […]
  2. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. countable,uncountable
    — He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.
  3. Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]

词形变化

curiosities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bi-curiosity curio curiosity killed the cat public curiosity uncuriosity
相关词
curious

词源

From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin cūriōsitātem, accusative of cūriōsitās. By surface analysis, curious + -ity. Displaced native Old English firwitt.
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