Curious
['kjʊərɪəs] or ['kjʊrɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); 'a curious child is a teacher's delight'; 'a trap door that made me curious'; 'curious investigators'; 'traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers'; 'curious about the neighbor's doings' .
(adj.) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; 'a curious hybrid accent'; 'her speech has a funny twang'; 'they have some funny ideas about war'; 'had an odd name'; 'the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves'; 'something definitely queer about this town'; 'what a rum fellow'; 'singular behavior' .
(adj.) having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; 'a trap door that made me curious' .
黛尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
(a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
(a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
(a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
編輯:陌莉
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, peering.[2]. Rare, singular, strange, unusual, unique, extraordinary, queer, out of the way.[3]. Elegant, neat, nice, finished.
欧内斯特整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Inquiring, inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, meddling, singular, searching,interrogative, peeping, peering, rare, unique, odd, recondite
ANT:Indifferent, uninquiring, incurious, uninterested, trite, common, superficial
埃斯蒂斯整理
解釋/意思:
adj. anxious to learn: inquisitive: showing great care or nicety: skilfully made: singular: rare.—n. Curios′ity state or quality of being curious: inquisitiveness: that which is curious: anything rare or unusual.—adv. Cū′riously.—n. Cū′riousness.—Curious arts (B.) magical practices.
整理:莫顿
例句/造句/用法:
- It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mine is a curious fate. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Were thy garments searched by as curious an eye, Isaac, said he, what discoveries might not be made? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I heard it, as I have in my time heard other curious things in the same place. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Having discovered this relation, which requires no farther examination, I am curious to find some other of their qualities. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Your observation of the similitude between many of the words and those of the ancient world, are indeed very curious. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It is a curious fact that in the Edison family the pronunciation of the name has always been with the long e sound, as it would naturally be in the Dutch language. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- With curious readiness did she adapt herself to such themes as interested him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And any one could see that he shook with fear, and that there broke out upon his lips curious white flakes, like thin snow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I say, it would be curious if it got into Bulstrode's hands after all. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- So to speak, there was in these respects a curious inattention in my mind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
整理:雷蒙德