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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, after all, it was a beautiful and curious world.
-- "It's a curious thing," said the Medical Man; "but I certainly don't know the natural order of these flowers.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country and a most curious country it was.
-- The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything.
-- The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things but the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold.
-- Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while and these, being dream-rushes, melted away almost like snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet but Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many other curious things to think about.
-- 'They must be very curious looking creatures.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a curious thing to understand, for I had certainly never liked the man, though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears.
-- Under that, the miscellany began a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
-- The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries.
-- "I'll bear it in mind," said Silver with an accent so curious that I could not, for the life of me, decide whether he were laughing at my request or had been favourably affected by my courage.
-- We made a curious figure, had anyone been there to see us all in soiled sailor clothes and all but me armed to the teeth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the Babiroussa would have been installed in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!"
-- The division containing the zoophytes presented the most curious specimens of the two groups of polypi and echinodermes.
-- In the first group, the tubipores, were gorgones arranged like a fan, soft sponges of Syria, ises of the Moluccas, pennatules, an admirable virgularia of the Norwegian seas, variegated unbellulairae, alcyonariae, a whole series of madrepores, which my master Milne Edwards has so cleverly classified, amongst which I remarked some wonderful flabellinae oculinae of the Island of Bourbon, the "Neptune's car" of the Antilles, superb varieties of corals in short, every species of those curious polypi of which entire islands are formed, which will one day become continents.
-- Apart, in separate compartments, were spread out chaplets of pearls of the greatest beauty, which reflected the electric light in little sparks of fire; pink pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls of the haliotyde iris; yellow, blue and black pearls, the curious productions of the divers molluscs of every ocean, and certain mussels of the water-courses of the North; lastly, several specimens of inestimable value which had been gathered from the rarest pintadines.
-- I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a great physical attractiveness in him a curious hidden richness, that came through his thinness and his pallor like another voice, conveying another knowledge of him.
-- Gerald watched him with curious eyes.
-- He looked at Gerald, and saw how his blue eyes were lit up with a little flame of curious desire.
-- Still she stared into his face with that slow, full gaze which was so curious and so exciting to him.
-- And this roused a curious exultance.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
-- In the absence of clear proofs of his condition, I deemed it best to abstain from noticing his curious conduct; and, five minutes afterwards, the entrance of Heathcliff relieved me, in some measure, from my uncomfortable state.
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