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。
• Go places. Try new things. Follow your curiosities and passions. Take chances.
  去旅游、尝试新事物、追随你的好奇心和激情、冒险。
• A cabinet of curiosities, the city unfolds square by square, age by age.
  布拉格展示了一个个广场、一个个时代，这里充满了好奇。
• Parapsychology helps me to content my curiosities, try to explore birth and death.
  研究超心理学满足我的好奇心，探究生死，减少恐惧。
• Tumors of the small intestine are medical curiosities from several points of view.
  从几方面看，小肠肿瘤在医学上是罕见的。
• Such curiosities can become quite important, especially in the design of machines to replace hand operations.
  这类过分挑剔的标准有时可能非常重要，特别是在设计某种用于代替手工操作的机械装置时。
• 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。
• Tempting as it is to loll on the beach, I want to explore the cultural curiosities outside the hotel.
  尽管懒洋洋地倚靠在海滩是一个很大的诱惑，我还是想要探索在酒店之外的新奇的当地文化。
• The shop was full of curiosities.
  这个商店里满是奇珍异宝。
• 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。