curiosity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 好奇心； 古董， 古玩，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Opening this piece of paper in the next pause, the counsel looked with great at-tention and curiosity at the prisoner.
-- All the people of the village were at the fountain, stand-ing about in their depressed manner, and whispering low, but showing no other emotions than grim curiosity and surprise.
-- In that, there seemed a faint expression of curiosity or per-plexity as though he were trying to reconcile some doubts in his mind.
-- The leading curiosity is, to know which is he; he stands at the back of the tumbril with his head bent down, to converse with a mere girl who sits on the side of the cart, and holds his hand.
-- He has no curiosity or care for the scene about him, and always speaks to the girl.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come now, what treasure have yo been buying lately at the old curiosity shops?"
-- Kitty held her by the hand, and with passionate curiosity and entreaty her eyes asked her: "What is it, what is this of such importance that gives you such tranquillity?
-- For the first instant Levin saw an expression of eager curiosity in the eyes with which Kitty looked at this awful woman, so incomprehensible to her; but it lasted only a single instant.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
-- Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference; did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old historians always spoke of with horror, and upon which the ancient navigators never ventured without propitiating the gods by ample sacrifices.
-- Unhappily for his master, as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go.
-- From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if he had not ripened, yet he was close to earth, he did hate pretentiousness, he did use his hands, and he did seek iron actualities with a curiosity inextinguishable.
-- Unfortunately his confidant happened to be a real shoe- salesman, with a large curiosity as to what firm Martin represented, and he returned to the day coach with a renewed sense of injury.
-- The eight girls, from pretty Orchid aged nineteen to the five-year- old twins, surged up in a tidal wave of friendly curiosity and tried to talk all at once.
-- Orchid had the flapper's curiosity as to what a man was likely to do, but she was satisfied by exceedingly small thrills.
-- You know something of laboratory technique; you have heard about dese bacilli; you are not a good chemist, and mathematics--pfui!--most terrible!But you have curiosity and you are stubborn.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But you can't write, you can hardly hold the pen,' ob-served the head clerk, looking with curiosity at Raskolnikov.
-- But some curiosity and even a sort of prudence made him linger for a moment.
-- The preparations for the funeral dinner at Katerina Ivanov-na's excited his curiosity as he passed.
-- I see that you, too, are extremely interested and shall feel it my duty to satisfy your curiosity at the first opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I did not even know where Miss Betsey lived, I wrote a longletter to Peggotty, and asked her, incidentally, if she remembered;pretending that I had heard of such a lady living at a certain place Inamed at random, and had a curiosity to know if it were the same.
-- I felt some curiosity and excitement about this lady,especially as Steerforth burst into a fit of laughing when I referredto her, and positively refused to answer any question of which Imade her the subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Frank Churchill was one of the boasts of Highbury, and a lively curiosity to see him prevailed, though the com-pliment was so little returned that he had never been there in his life.
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