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curious English

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curious

If someone is curious, they ask a lot of questions and want to know new things. If someone or something is curious, he/she/it is strange or unusual.

curious

(= funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected a curious hybrid accent her speech has a funny twang they have some funny ideas about war had an odd name the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves something definitely queer about this town what a rum fellow singular behavior eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) a curious child is a teacher's delight a trap door that made me curious curious investigators traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers curious about the neighbor's doings having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more a trap door that made me curious

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Simple sentences

I am curious.
Small children are very curious.
Tom is curious.
I guess I'm a little curious.
I thought you might be curious.
Tom became curious.
I'm a little curious.
Kittens are curious.
I was really curious.
I'm curious.
Never again would she be curious about the city.
Little is known of this curious plant.
There is a curious story about an Englishman.
The more you study, the more curious you will become.
She is curious to find who sent the flowers.
She is always curious about what I am doing.
She was so curious that she opened the box.
He's curious about everything.
I was curious to know why people had been staring at me.
I'm curious to know why they removed my name from the list.
This makes me curious.
Meg is curious to know everything about Japan.
He was curious to know her secret.
The little kids were very curious.

Movie subtitles

It's just because I have a very curious nature.
Well, curious at least.
I'm curious - what did you mean by that?
No, I'm just-.curious.
We're curious as to your relationship with Declan.
The astronomers arrive into the interior of a most curious grotto filled with enormous mushrooms of every kind.
You have made me very curious about your story and I can't wait to hear how it continues!
As men of science, we should be curious. and bold enough to peer beyond it. into the many wonders it conceals.
I've been out here 10 years, and I'm more curious about that mummy than you are, and even more about that box.
Besides, you know, it isn't fair to make me curious and then just not say anything.
A curious coincidence.
And I'm not the least bit curious.
Curious house, this.
Curious owner.
Curious, are you? Currently, we're attempting to force humans to evolve.
I've always been curious about your line.
I think they're just curious, don't you?
We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.
I've always been curious to know what kind of a girl would marry a front-page aviator like King Westley.
I'm curious to know what you sent him for.
Safari boys, curious about the music.
Yes. She has a curious taste in knick-knacks.
There's a curious coincidence.
Why be so curious?
What a curious name!
In any event, I'm not curious.
I will explain the defendants real reasons. Well, now I'm curious.
Have you been well? Would someone who's curious as to how I've been doing not contact me and only meet in a place like this, under these kind of circumstances?
There was a curious shadow in front of me, and I didn't see the cart at all.
I had a curious glimpse of it.
I had a curious feeling that somehow he knew.
I think that I have the right to be curious.
I've always been curious to know what kind of girl would marry. a front-page aviator like King Westley.
Being curious, I went along with her.
Now I'm curious. Go ahead!
Why, that's curious.
I'm not curious but. I'd like to know how you spend your money.
Oh, he was just getting a little curious about that real estate business.

News and current affairs

Indeed, the most curious aspect of the ECB's position was its threat not to accept restructured government bonds as collateral if the ratings agencies decided that the restructuring should be classified as a credit event.
Masters of these disciplines were revered there, medicine advanced quickly, and the average person was curious about how nature worked.
This produced rather curious results.
In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a handful of votes more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.
In all areas the direction is toward even liberalization, but President Kim's path to liberalism is through a curious kind of social corporatism.
Maoism was a curious and unique mixture of class warfare and socialist leveling, all enunciated by a man who believed that individuals - or at least Mao himself - could shape history rather than be formed by its tides and currents.
As curious as such gestures are in an institution that thrives on imagery, they are symbolic frills.
Curious about the contents of the trunk, the captain of the ship crept down to Descartes' cabin one night and opened it.
Nevertheless, a curious thing has happened: far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before.
We all come into the world curious, equipped with the psychological drive to explore the world and to expand the terrain that we think we master.
Kouchner's popularity is a curious phenomenon.
Russia's extreme activism is curious.
There is a curious aspect to Eady's judgment.
There is a curious phenomenon that economists call the resource curse - so named because, on average, countries with large endowments of natural resources perform worse than countries that are less well endowed.
Of course, curious as they might be, central bankers could decide that meeting in Harare would be too inconvenient and politically unpalatable.
This fits with yet another curious piece of the Chinese puzzle.
This partly explains the curious flow of funds from developing countries to the US - from whence the world's problems originated.
In many other parts of the world, however, we have observed a rather curious and unwelcome development in recent decades - structural change in the wrong direction.
Given that balance-sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be opaque and easy to manipulate.
The Dalai Lama's curious position has complicated India's diplomatic dance with China.
The point is reinforced by a curious glossy magazine advertisement that you might have seen recently.
I have always found him to be direct, intellectually curious, a first-rate analytical thinker, and a forward-looking advocate of market-based reforms.
One of my childhood memories is asking my mother about a curious custom. Women who were about to give birth would gaze at their simple rubber shoes, which were kept by the back door.
Alan Greenspan is a great man, but it is a curious set of circumstances that has elevated the job of Fed chairman to Mount Olympus.
This produced rather curious results. If the demand for labor equaled the supply, for example, there couldn't be any unemployment.
So China may be edging towards a whole new way of interacting with the world and dealing with its people; its curious authoritarian capitalism may be inching towards some new, and possibly viable, model for long-term development.
One of my childhood memories is asking my mother about a curious custom.

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