喜樂美語
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    A curio is a small object you keep because it is beautiful, strange, or rare — a tiny , an old box, a shell from far away. Shops used to sell “curios” to , and people kept them in a cabinet. The word is a form of curiosity, in the sense of “an interesting thing,” from the mid-1800s. It sounds a little old and shop-like now; younger speakers might just say a little antique, or a weird little object. It is a noun for the thing, not the feeling of being curious.

    珍玩；奇珍小物（因好看或稀罕而收藏的小東西；偏老派、店家用語）

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組成Clipping of curiosity (1851). Compare older “cabinet of curiosities.”

同家族的字

  • curiositycurio is a shortened form of curiosity, the interesting object
  • curiouscurious is the adjective; same family, different job in the sentence

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

curionoun/ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/

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    A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

    • Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.
    • Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。