‘What have you got in there?’ Felix asked curiously.
“你那里面是什么?”费利克斯好奇地问道。
She felt curiously calm.
她感到出奇地平静。
Examples from the Corpus
curious• "Why do you want to know about Catherine?" "Oh no reason. I'm just curious."• The principal's response to the problem was curious.• I'm not being nosy, I'm just curious.• Even young children often become curious about drugs.• People have always been curious about exactly how life on earth began.• Being naturally curious animals, cats often find their way into dangerous places.• He had come to some curiousarrangement with his landlady.• But even I am a little bitcurious as to what the top news stories are.• It is curious, by the way, that the gridiron plan should have gone on so long.• The visitors were soon surrounded by a crowd of curious children.• Life in the village was a curiouscombination of the old and the very new.• At first Wexford felt a curiousdistaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him.• Stringtheory has a curioushistory.• The result is a curioushybrid that values action and physicalmovementabove all else.• Upon learning of this dailymiracle, a curious neighbor gave the fish a whack.• A few curious neighbors came out to see what was going on.• They had once been white, he remembered, but now they had turned a curiousshade of yellow.• She looked through the drawers of Bob's desk, curious to explore even the most unconsideredcorners of his life.• He was curious to find out why she had left her job so suddenly.• It was a weird situation, and I was curious to learn more.
curious about• All children are curious about the workings of things.
Origincurious
(1300-1400)Old Frenchcurios, from Latincuriosus“careful, wanting to know”, from cura; → CURE1