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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off un-perceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.
-- hree days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to Tthe north- east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
-- Glumdalclitch was prevailed on to be of the company, very much against her inclination, for she was naturally tender-hearted: and, as for myself, although I abhorred such kind of spectacles, yet my curiosity tempted me to see something that I thought must be extraordinary.
-- I told his majesty, 'that in Europe we had no monkeys, except such as were brought for curiosity from other places, and so small, that I could deal with a dozen of them together, if they pre-sumed to attack me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then comes the question; said the eminently practical father, with his eyes on the fire, 'in what has this vulgar curiosity its rise?'
-- 'Pardon my curiosity at parting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He received me in his study; a perfect museum, containing every natural curiosity that can well be imagined--minerals, however, predominating.
-- I watched him with mingled curiosity and eagerness.
-- My curiosity was worked up to the very highest pitch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which commenced business with the poor child by asking him in its title, why he was going to Perdition? a piece of curiosity that he really, in a frock and drawers, was not in a condition to satisfy and which, for the further attraction of his infant mind, had a parenthesis in every other line with some such hiccupping reference as 2 Ep.
-- His original curiosity augmented every day, as he watched for her, saw or did not see her, and speculated about her.
-- PatriarchalThe mention of Mr Casby again revived in Clennam's memory the smouldering embers of curiosity and interest which Mrs Flintwinch had fanned on the night of his arrival.
-- But as her father when they had been to a brilliant reception at Mrs Merdle's, harped at their own family breakfast-table on his wish to know Mr Merdle, with the contingent view of benefiting by the advice of that wonderful man in the disposal of his fortune, she began to think it had a real meaning, and to entertain a curiosity on her own part to see the shining light of the time.
-- She then makes a proposition, which is, in effect, that she has seen us much together; that it appears to her that I am for the passing time the cat of the house, the friend of the family; that her curiosity and her chagrins awaken the fancy to be acquainted with their movements, to know the manner of their life, how the fair Gowana is beloved, how the fair Gowana is cherished, and so on.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps curiosity might have conquered resentment, if Beth had not been there to inquire and receive a glowing description of the play.
-- Didn't know you had a lover,' cried the girls, fluttering about Meg in a high state of curiosity and surprise.
-- asked Meg, full of curiosity to know his opinion of her, yet feeling ill at ease with him for the first time.
-- Curiosity and wonder possessed all hearts, but respect re-strained all tongues till the holy rite was over.
-- While Amy stood laughing on the bank above him as she scat-tered crumbs to the brilliant birds, Laurie looked at her as she had looked at him, with a natural curiosity to see what changes time and absence had wrought.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pay this particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness; staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding.
-- Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance.
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
-- Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.
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