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

• This column will fill you full of facts about the curiosities and wonders of the world around you.
  本栏目将带你一起去探索这个充满了新奇和知识的世界。
• The shop was full of curiosities.
  这个商店里满是奇珍异宝。
• 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。
• My grandfather is very interested in collecting curiosities.
  我的祖父对收集古董很感兴趣。
• 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。
• 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；
• Among its curiosities is the car's four levels of regenerative braking, accessed through the steering wheel-mounted paddles.
  在这款车的令人奇怪之处中，有一点是它通过方向盘上的拨片实现的四档再生制动系统。
• But I say, don't shy away from the challenging parts of yourself. Don't deny the desires and curiosities, the doubts and dissatisfactions, the joy and the darkness, that might knock you off the path that you have set for yourself.
  你们更愿意规避混乱、动荡和强烈的感情，但我想说，不要回避挑战自我，不要否认欲望和好奇心、怀疑和不满、快乐和阴郁，它们可能改变你预设的人生轨迹。
• At first, these were curiosities. They'd soon become unshakable industry behemoths.
  起初，这些产品只是令人感兴趣，但不久之后，它们都成为了不可动摇的业界霸主。
• 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。