This old map is quite a curiosity.
这张旧地图的确是件珍品。
And such encounters are not just a curiosity.
诸如此类的碰撞并非只是好奇趋使。
The armor on its own is more than a curiosity.
盔甲的意义可不止是满足我们的好奇心！
He knew the light bulb by itself would have remained merely a curiosity.
他知道灯泡本身可能永远都只是一个新奇的玩意。
One day I strolled into a curiosity shop where I browsed the antiques on display.
一天我闲步来到一家古玩店，在那里我看到了一些古董陈列在架子上。
Morgiana obeyed, though with no little reluctance, and had a curiosity to see this man who ate no salt.
莫吉安娜服从了；虽然带着一点不情愿，并且有一点好奇去看看这个不吃盐的男人。
A curiosity, yes, but to the surprise of many Civil War buffs even today, Clark was by no means unique.
一件奇闻，是的，但无论如何，克拉克并非个案。即使现在，内战历史的爱好者对这点，也感到惊奇。
The deal with South Africa's largest lender suggested Africa was no longer a curiosity but a potentially big source of profits.
与南非最大的贷款机构的这桩生意说明，非洲不再是新奇之地，而是一大块潜在的利润来源。
Even so, a field that was just a curiosity in 1993 is now poised to change the world — all because we invested in basic research.
尽管这样，这个在1993年还是件新奇事物的领域现在将要改变世界——这都是因为我们花精力进行了基础研究。
Though the authors note as a curiosity that campaigns against secondary smoke predated the evidence that it did any harm, they show no desire to explore this seemingly reversed causality.
先有了抗议二次吸烟的运动，然后才出现相关的证据，虽然作者对此表示好奇，但他们并不打算深究这种似乎前后颠倒的因果关系。
But while Bolivians have lived off it for centuries, quinoa remained little more than a curiosity outside the Andes for years, found in health food shops and studied by researchers — until recently.
不过，尽管玻利维亚人以藜麦为食已有数个世纪，但多年来在安第斯山区之外这仍然是稀罕之物，直到最近，才进驻保健食物商店，才有研究者对其展开研究。
I feel a stirring of curiosity.
我开始产生好奇心。
A person who is unable to stimulate others' curiosity or make their life enjoyable may appear somewhat boring.
一个不能激发别人好奇心的人或不能使生活变得愉快的人，可能会显得有些无聊。
That's partly what you have to develop when you get interested in a field: some sense of curiosity about all the details.
当你对某个领域非常感兴趣的时候，你必须培养这种兴趣：对所有细节的好奇心。
Having asserted your position (as a position, not as a fact) demonstrates equal curiosity about other views.
申明你的立场（仅作为立场，而非当作既定事实）可以表明你对其他观点有同样的好奇心。
As a boy, Perkin's curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, sciences, photography, and engineering.
作为一个男孩，珀金的好奇心激发了他早期对艺术、科学、摄影和工程的兴趣。
The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
他的神秘像一扇既没有锁也没有钥匙的门激起了她的好奇心。
Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and that we are losing it.
莱斯利认为，好奇心是一种经常被忽视的人类美德，它对我们的成功至关重要，而我们正在失去它。
Curiosity covers such a large set of behaviors that there probably isn't any single "curiosity gene" that makes humans wonder about and explore their environment.
好奇涵盖了如此多的行为，以至于可能不存在任何一种单一的“好奇心基因”能让人类对自己的环境感到好奇和探索。
Having that sort of curiosity is almost like a protective gear from getting into boredom.
拥有那种好奇心几乎就像拥有一件防止变得无聊的防护装备。
First of all, it seems that a successful scientist is full of curiosity—he wants to find out how and why the universe works.
首先，一个成功的科学家似乎都充满了好奇心——他想知道宇宙是如何运作的以及为什么会这样。
Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success and that we are losing it.
莱斯利认为，好奇心是一种常被忽视的人类美德，对成功至关重要，而人们却在慢慢丧失好奇心。
The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem.
每个例子都意味着好奇心是一件好事，而缺乏好奇心是一个问题。
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