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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature.
-- A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!
-- He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
-- For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It at once reduced Mr. Sowerberry to begging, as a special favour, to be allowed to say what Mrs. Sowerberry was most curious to hear.
-- Oliver's colour rose as he said this; he breathed quickly; and there was a curious working of the mouth and nostrils, which Mr. Claypole thought must be the immediate precursor of a violent fit of crying.
-- cried Noah, with well-affected dismay: and in tones so loud and agitated, that they not only caught the ear of Mr. Bumble himself, who happened to be hard by, but alarmed him so much that he rushed into the yard without his cocked hat,--which is a very curious and remarkable circumstance: as showing that even a beadle, acted upon a sudden and powerful impulse, may be afflicted with a momentary visitation of loss of self-possession, and forgetfulness of personal dignity.
-- When the breakfast was cleared away; the merry old gentlman and the two boys played at a very curious and uncommon game, which was performed in this way.
-- At the earnest manner of his reply, the old gentleman laughed again; and said something about a curious instinct, which Oliver, not understanding, paid no very great attention to.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The perpetual commendations of the lady, ei- ther on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.
-- It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to think of something, and in this emergence recollecting WHEN she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty depar-ture, she observed: 'How very suddenly you all quitted Netherfield last No-vember, Mr. Darcy!It must have been a most agreeable surprise to Mr. Bingley to see you all after him so soon; for, if I recollect right, he went but the day before.
-- After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two gentlemen behind, on resuming their plac-es, after descending to the brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration.
-- Chapter 45 onvinced as Elizabeth now was that Miss Bingley's dis-Clike of her had originated in jealousy, she could not help feeling how unwelcome her appearance at Pemberley must be to her, and was curious to know with how much civility on that lady's side the acquaintance would now be renewed.
-- Are not you curious to hear how it was man-aged?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found him by his blood staining the water; and by the help of a rope, which I slung round him, and gave the negroes to haul, they dragged him on shore, and found that it was a most curious leopard, spotted, and fine to an admirable degree; and the negroes held up their hands with admiration, to think what it was I had killed him with.
-- Such is the uneven state of human life; and it afforded me a great many curious speculations afterwards, when I had a little recovered my first surprise.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must be that a strange bundle of passions and vague desires give rise to such a curious social institution or it would not be.
-- There was a deep pit, into which they were looking; they could see the curious wet stones far down where the wall disappeared in vague shadows.
-- It was this way through many shifts of the tired brain, those curious phantoms of the spirit slipping in, blurring strange scenes, one with the other.
-- "All right," she replied, but he could see that she was thinking that it was a curious thing.
-- It is curious to note how quickly a profession absorbs one.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the woman stopped talking I looked up, and she was looking at me pretty curious and smiling a little.
-- I judged that that piece of paper meant that Miss Sophia was to meet Harney somewheres at half-past two and run off; and I judged I ought to told her father about that paper and the curious way she acted, and then maybe he would a locked her up, and this awful mess wouldn't ever happened.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old fellow, curious to know the true story of the Marionette's life, immediately untied the rope which held his foot.
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