curious的意思

curious

英 ['kjʊərɪəs] 美 ['kjʊrɪəs]

近义词	peculiar 、 strange 、 queer 、 odd 、 unusual

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副词: curiously;

curious 好奇的

来自cure, 关心，关切。

curious: curious: see cure
curious (adj.): mid-14c., "eager to know" (often in a bad sense), from Old French curioses "solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange" (Modern French curieux) and directly from Latin curiosesus "careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome," akin to cura "care" (see cure (n.)). The objective sense of "exciting curiosesity" is 1715 in English. In booksellers' catalogues, the word means "erotic, *ographic." Curiouser and curiouser is from "Alice in Wonderland" (1865).

1. The interior was shielded from the curious gaze of passersby.: 屋子内部被挡住了，以防路人好奇地张望。

2. By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.: 让人感到惊奇的是，板球碰巧也是我最喜欢的运动。

3. Steve was intensely curious about the world I came from.: 史蒂夫非常想了解我以前生活的那个世界。

4. "I'm not meddling," Kenworthy said mildly, "I'm just curious.": “我不是在多管闲事，”肯沃西温和地说，“我只是好奇罢了。”

5. "Has there been an accident?" Gary asked, idly curious.: “出什么事故了吗？”加里问道，漫不经心又好奇。