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Curious French Curiouser 3132.Curious 英 Kjʊərɪəs]美 Kjʊrɪəs 释义

正面 3132.curious
英 ['kjʊərɪəs]美 ['kjʊrɪəs]

背面
释义:
adj. 好奇的,有求知欲的;古怪的;爱挑剔的
例句:
1. The interior was shielded from the curious gaze of passersby.屋子内部被挡住了,以防路人好奇地张望。

1、pun- + -ish + -ment.
curious 好奇的来自cure, 关心,关切。
curiouscurious: see curecurious (adj.)mid-14c., "eager to know" (often in a bad sense), from Old French curios "solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange" (Modern French curieux) and directly from Latin curiosus "careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome," akin to cura "care" (see cure (n.)). The objective sense of "exciting curiosity" is 1715 in English. In booksellers' catalogues, the word means "erotic, pornographic." Curiouser and curiouser is from "Alice in Wonderland" (1865)."

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