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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, I have to attempt a curious and important journey, the plan of which has been drawn up by my learned friend and colleague, M. Vivien de Saint Martin.
-- I am quite aware that the group is said to be devoid of much interest, and wild, and unhealthy; but everything is curious in the eyes of a geographer.
-- It was a spectacle which caused both pleasure and pain, for nothing could be more curious than to see the said water-spouts wandering over the plain, coming in contact and mingling with each other, and falling and rising in wild confusion; but, on the other hand, nothing could be more disagreeable than the dust which was thrown off by these innumerable MEDANOS, which was so impalpable that close one's eyes as they might, it found its way through the lids.
-- Robert had killed a curious animal belonging to the order EDENTATA, an armadillo, a sort of tatou, covered with a hard bony shell, in movable pieces, and measuring a foot and a half long.
-- He went on talking about the Indians however, and made this curious observation:"I have read somewhere," he said, "that about the Arabs there is a peculiar expression of ferocity in the mouth, while the eyes have a kindly look.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holmes was silent, but his little darting glances showed me the interest which he took in our curious companion.
-- That gravel page upon which I might have read so much has been long ere this smudged by the rain and defaced by the clogs of curious peasants.
-- I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since you have been in London?'
-- If you are here, then it fol-lows that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is interesting himself in the matter, and I am naturally curious to know what view he may take.'
-- Stapleton looked at me with a curious expression in his face.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they are sure to receive me, I should think; Madame Epanchin will naturally be curious to see the only remaining representative of her family.
-- 'What a very curious man you are, Gania!
-- Her eyes were grey and wore a very curious expression at times.
-- It is of course a most curious case nearly an impossible one.
-- I have heard curious tales about her before now, but if she came to invite us to her house, why did she behave so to my mother?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The part that they had ploughed was dark behind them, so that the field, though it was of gold, still looked as if it were being ploughed very curious to behold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thick black hair, escaping as it could below and between the cross bandages, projected in curious tails and horns, giving him the strangest appearance conceivable.
-- Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minutes he was audible pacing the room.
-- Being constitutionally of a curious nature, he had removed the works a quite unnecessary proceeding with the idea of delaying his departure and perhaps falling into conversation with the stranger.
-- CHAPTER IV MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER I have told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain fulness of detail, in order that the curious impression he created may be understood by the reader.
-- 'Tas a most curious business."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physi-cal and mental stress.
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- There was a curious glow of excitement in his face.
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