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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is one thing to be said of it,' Louisa repeated in her former curious tone; 'it will be getting away from home.
-- In another moment, he stood as he had stood all the time his usual stoop upon him; his pondering face addressed to Mr. Bounderby, with a curious expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his mind were set upon unravelling something very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of action, very earnestly emphasizing what he said: not least so when it always paused, a little bent, but not withdrawn, as he paused.
-- Hopeless labour!If he led them out of rooms where it was, if he shut up drawers and closets where it stood, if he drew the curious from places where he knew it to be secreted, and got them out into the streets, the very chimneys of the mills assumed that shape, and round them was the printed word.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What for me is curious in this island, is not what is above the surface, but what is below."
-- "One of the most curious volcanoes in existence, the crater of which has been rarely visited."
-- You will make a harvest of curious observations.
-- Simply to take a journey through a curious country, to climb a remarkable mountain, and if the worst comes to the worst, to descend into the crater of an extinct volcano."
-- This extraordinary and curious island must have made its appearance from out of the great world of waters at a comparatively recent date.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, or-ganic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary.
-- said Michaelis, sharply and suddenly, with a curious laugh; hollow, triumphant, and bitter.
-- He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.
-- And as he felt the frenzy of her achieving her own orgasmic satisfaction from his hard, erect passivity, he had a curious sense of pride and satis-faction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A door stood open, and within she saw the attendant upon the girl she had just left; the maid with the curious name.
-- But this was the origin of a series of Sunday excursions that these two curious companions made together.
-- A dozen years ago, he perfects an invention (involving a very curious secret process) of great importance to his country and his fellow-creatures.
-- There, he left his Principal alone; to wonder, as he rode away, how many thousand Plornishes there might be within a day or two's journey of the Circumlocution Office, playing sundry curious variations on the same tune, which were not known by ear in that glorious institution.
-- 'Such a strange noise, Jeremiah, and such a curious movement.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also allowed her to roam about the great house, and examine the curious and pretty things stored away in the big wardrobes and the ancient chests, for Aunt March hoarded like a magpie.
-- Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excite-ment, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
-- 'If that's the way he's going to grow up, I wish he's stay a boy,' she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay.
-- She put them in his but-tonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melan-choly, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere.
-- He refused to believe it at first, got angry with himself, and couldn't understand it, but these hearts of ours are curious and con-trary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
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