核心畫面

Think of the small tug you feel toward something covered, closed, or not yet explained — a cloth over an object, a door you have never opened, a sentence you did not catch. Curiosity is that pull to go and look.

可以想成心裡被什麼勾了一下的感覺:前面有個蓋著布的東西、一扇從沒開過的門、一句聽不懂的話,你就會想湊過去看一眼、想開更多收起可以想成心裡被什麼勾了一下的感覺:前面有個蓋著布的東西、一扇從沒開過的門、一句聽不懂的話,你就會想湊過去看一眼、想開口問。curiosity 指的就是那股「想知道」的拉力本身,這股拉力沒有好壞,只是把人往前帶。

原始詞典資料3 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。

curiositynoun/ˌkjʊə.ɹiˈɒs.ɪ.ti/

  • 1

    Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring.

    • It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, […]
    • "Certainly there is nothing wrong with Alvin's intelligence, but many of the things that should concern him seem to be a matter of complete indifference. On the other hand, he shows a morbid curiosity regarding subjects which we do not generally discuss."
  • 2

    A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest.

    • He put the strangely shaped rock in his curiosity cabinet.
    • [The room] was adorned with a great number of nicknacks and curiosities, which might have engaged the attention of a virtuoso.
  • 3

    obsoleteCareful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building.

    • wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]

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