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。

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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。

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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。

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I watched it for perhaps a half-hour until my curiosity got the better of me.

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So hopefully there is indeed a way to fix this, but it looks as though the division operator, the single slash is division but -- and here's a curiosity about many programming languages -- because 17 is an integer and because 13 is an integer, why do I say that?

我的确希望有一个方法来修正这个错误，但是看起来,好像那个除法操作，那个斜杠是除法,但是--对于很多编程语言来说,是挺奇怪的--因为17是一个整数,13也是一个整数，为什么我这样说？

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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,你可以培养一种习惯,就是对细节的好奇心

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Even more of a curiosity, however, is to find words that have gone utterly obsolete.

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Cowgill's idiosyncrasy not only makes him the solution to a trivia question and a curiosity to his teammates.

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However, in most parts of America, unionised steel is a curiosity, destined, seemingly irreversibly, for the history books.

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