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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma.
-- It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm preposses-sion.
-- Harriet, she found, had never in her life been within side the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.
-- That Mr. and Mrs. Weston did think of it, she was very strongly persuaded; and though not meaning to be induced by him, or by any body else, to give up a situation which she believed more replete with good than any she could change it for, she had a great curiosity to see him, a decided intention of find-ing him pleasant, of being liked by him to a certain degree, and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends' imaginations.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba who was driven to the fair that day by her odd man Poorgrass had, like every one else, read or heard the announcement that Mr. Francis, the Great Cosmopolitan Equestrian and Roughrider, would enact the part of Turpin, and she was not yet too old and careworn to be without a little curiosity to see him.
-- Coggan retired before she could ask any further; and next they called at the vicar's in a manner which excited no curiosity at all.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are so unlucky as to walk off with something or other belonging to somebody else, and they exhibit you as a curiosity in the Place du Palais-de-Justice; you steal a million, and you are pointed out in every salon as a model of virtue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate 22 Frankensteinhis fate if it were in my power.
-- Partly from curiosity and partly from idleness, I went into the lecturing room, which M. Waldman entered short-ly after.
-- It was to be de-cided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full of innocence and joy, the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.
-- Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed and in some degree alarmed me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very mysteryof him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
-- Scarlett sighed, for her curiosity was sharp.
-- Now, the Wilkes " "Not meaning to change the subject, Ma'm," broke in Gerald hurriedly, for he had noticed Carreen's bewilderedlook and the avid curiosity on Suellen's face and feared lest they might ask Ellen embarrassing questions which wouldreveal how inadequate a chaperon he was.
-- Part Two CHAPTER VIII AS THE TRAIN carried Scarlett northward that May morning in 1862, she thought that Atlanta couldn't possiblybe so boring as Charleston and Savannah had been and, in spite of her distaste for Miss Pittypat and Melanie, shelooked forward with some curiosity toward seeing how the town had fared since her last visit, in the winter before thewar began.
-- Like most innocent and well-bred young women, shehad a devouring curiosity about prostitutes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like "sulks."
-- We never should have got leave to go, I am sure, but for Mrs. Joe's curiosity to know all about it and how it ended.
-- The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him.
-- But I was too much bewildered between breathless curiosity and surprise, to be sure of it.
-- I told him I would do so, with all the interest and curiosity that his preparation awakened.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she heard this she started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
-- This had gone on for a long time, when one day the ser-vant, who took away the dish, was overcome with such curiosity that he could not help carrying the dish into his room.
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