curious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 好奇的， 爱打听的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He didn't call 95it a particularly curious coincidence; most coincidences were curious.
-- Neither did he call it a curious coincidence that true patriotism was HIS only motive too.
-- It was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach.
-- They told me a curious thing when I was there.'
-- Curious to consider how heedless flies are! per-haps they thought as much at Court that sunny summer day.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ''Tis a curious world we live in,' continued he, soliloquizing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty's eyes opened in a curious way and gleamed at Anna's name, but controlling herself with an effort, she concealed her emotion and deceived him.
-- Between Princess Betsy Tverskaya and Stepan Arkadyevitch there had long existed rather curious relations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
-- "A curious place, this India?"
-- It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable.
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICEThe train had started punctually.
-- Passepartout wandered, with his hands in his pockets, towards the Victoria port, gazing as he went at the curious palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tubbs looked at the assistants; like a plotter in a political play, and hinted, "May we have a talk--" Gottlieb led him to his office, overlooking a vast bustle of side- tracks, of curving rails and brown freight-cars, and Tubbs urged: "It has come to our attention, by a curious chance, that you are on the eve of your most significant discovery.
-- It is uncertain whether the real hurt was to his love for America or to his egotism, that he should have guessed so grotesquely; it is curious that he who had so denounced the machine-made education of the land should yet have been surprised when it turned blithely to the old, old, mechanical mockeries of war.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness,' Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman's bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.
-- He was met, too, by luxu-rious carriages and by men and women on horseback; he watched them with curious eyes and forgot about them be-fore they had vanished from his sight.
-- He had come gradually to many different and curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossi-bility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself.
-- I will confess something psychologically curious about that: just now, defending my love for Avdotya Romanovna, I said I was myself the victim.
-- Some people laughed, others shook their heads, but everyone felt curious at the sight of the madwoman with the frightened children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked up, quickly; being curious to know.
-- I was so curious to know, that Imade up my mind to have it out with Mr. Peggotty.
-- It is curious to me how I could ever have consoled myselfunder my small troubles (which were great troubles to me), byimpersonating my favourite characters in them- as I did- and byputting Mr. and Miss Murdstone into all the bad oneswhich I didtoo.
-- But when she drew nearer, and I saw her blue eyeslooking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and herwhole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling came over me thatmade me pretend not to know her, and pass by as if I were lookingat something a long way off.
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