curiosity
noun /ˌkjʊəriˈɒsəti/
/ˌkjʊriˈɑːsəti/
(plural curiosities)
Idioms - [uncountable, singular] curiosity (about something) | curiosity (to do something) a strong desire to know about something
好奇心；求知欲 - Children show curiosity about everything.
儿童对一切事物都显露出好奇心。 - I felt a certain curiosity to see what would happen next.
我有点好奇，想知道下一步会发生什么事。 - The letter wasn't addressed to me but I opened it out of curiosity.
那封信不是写给我的，然而我却出于好奇把它拆开了。 - His answer did not satisfy my curiosity at all.
他的答复丝毫没有满足我的好奇心。 - Sophie's curiosity was aroused by the mysterious phone call.
那个神秘的电话引起了索菲的好奇心。 - intellectual curiosity
求知欲 - ‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Oh, just idle curiosity’ (= no particular reason).
“你为什么要问？” “哦，只是好奇而已。”
- Harry's curiosity got the better of him and he unlocked the cupboard
哈里在好奇心驱使下打开了橱柜的锁。 - I needed to satisfy my curiosity about what it was like to make records.
我需要满足我的好奇心，知道制作唱片是怎么回事。 - Kaylee stood staring with open curiosity.
凯莉站定，明显好奇地盯着看。 - School should awaken a child's natural curiosity.
学校应该唤醒孩子天生的好奇心 - She has an insatiable curiosity about life.
她对生命有一种永不满足的好奇心。 - The children watched us with mild curiosity.
孩子们有些好奇地看着我们。 - Their curiosity was aroused by his strange behaviour.
他的奇怪行为引起了他们的好奇。 - We went to the show out of curiosity more than anything else.
我们去看那场演出多半是出于好奇。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- intense
- insatiable
- …
- have
- arouse
- awaken
- …
- get the better of somebody
- overcome somebody
- take over
- …
- out of curiosity
- with curiosity
- curiosity about
- …
- a sense of curiosity
- Children show curiosity about everything.
- [countable] an unusual and interesting thing
罕见而有趣之物；奇物；珍品 - The museum is full of historical curiosities.
这座博物馆有许多珍奇历史文物。
- The museum is full of historical curiosities.
词源late Middle English: from Old French curiousete, from Latin curiositas, from curiosus ‘careful’, from cura ‘care’.
Idioms
curiosity killed the cat
- (saying) used to tell somebody not to ask questions or try to find out about things that do not involve them
好奇害死猫（让人别提问或打听与己无关的事情）