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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It needed no great pressing to induce me to stay, for if my curiosity has been excited on the occasion of my first visit, it certainly was not diminished now.
-- The landlady was very much astonished to learn that they had come all the way from London, and appeared to have no little curiosity touching their farther destination.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drivers, shop-keepers, kitchen maids, laborers and officials halted and gazed with curiosity at the prisoner.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread until at last they took complete possession of me.
-- This, again, was a question I deliberately put to myself, and my curiosity was at first entirely defeated upon the point.
-- But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel somehow as if I were invisible 'Here something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at first mere instinct, but once I had it in my hands and found it fast, curiosity began to get the upper hand, and I determined I should have one look through the cabin window.
-- I have that curiosity beside me at this moment, but not a trace of writing now remains beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb-nail.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tasted, more from curiosity than as a connoisseur, whilst Captain Nemo enchanted me with his extraordinary stories.
-- I do not wish to pry into your secrets: but I must confess that this Nautilus, with the motive power which is confined in it, the contrivances which enable it to be worked, the powerful agent which propels it, all excite my curiosity to the highest pitch.
-- The next day I related to Conseil and the Canadian the events of the night, which had excited my curiosity to the highest degree.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Birkin could see his curiosity roused.
-- There, a curiosity had been aroused in his mind.
-- For she had an insatiable curiosity to see and to know everything.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.
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