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好奇心
Curiosity
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
事实上，现代教学方法并没有完全扼杀探究的神圣好奇心，这简直是个奇迹。
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.
虽然我不能满足自己对工作方式的好奇心，但我对其他诗人的工作方式非常好奇。但我想我们很多人都是这样的。
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
一个人如果对人群的事情观察得太好，就像一个人对观察蜜蜂的劳动太好奇一样，他的好奇心往往会被刺痛。
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
音乐以及我们在舞台上和电视上所做的一切都在支持着我们。如果这能引起人们的好奇心，或者引起他们对我们的注意，那就好。
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
我认为，当孩子们日益增长的观察力和辨别能力激起他们对事物的渴望时，用谎言和胡言乱语来搪塞他们是大错特错的。
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
只有野蛮人才不好奇他们从哪里来，他们是怎么来的，他们现在在哪里，他们似乎要去哪里，他们是否想去那里，如果想去，为什么要去，如果不想去，为什么不去。
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
你每天路过的那棵树只是一棵树。如果你仔细观察一棵树所拥有的和它所拥有的生命，即使是最小的东西也能经得起好奇心的考验，你可以观察整个世界。
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
在任何年龄，我都不能满足于坐在炉边而只是旁观。生活就是要活下去。必须保持好奇心。无论出于什么原因，一个人绝不能背弃生活。
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
有各种各样的好奇心;一是兴趣，它使我们渴望知道对我们有用的东西;另一种是骄傲，它来自于想知道别人所不知道的东西的愿望。
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
我想，我之所以对这些评论感到好奇，是因为它们让我接触到了新的烹饪方法，让我认识到烹饪是研究其他文化和了解世界其他地方的一种机制。
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
我做了很多好奇心购买;如果我喜欢专辑封面，如果我喜欢乐队的名字，任何能激发我想象力的东西，我都会买。我仍然喜欢去唱片店，我喜欢到处逛，我会买任何吸引我注意力的东西。
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
教育的常识性之一，就是我们常常首先切断生活的根，然后试图用人为的手段取代它的自然功能。因此，我们抑制孩子的好奇心，当他对学习缺乏天生的兴趣时，我们会为他的学习困难提供特殊的指导。
KEEP EXPLORING
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Love is three quarters curiosity.
爱是好奇心的四分之三。
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
人类最大的美德也许是好奇心。
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
我对生活有一种好奇心，它驱使着我前进。
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
炼金术士在寻找金子的过程中发现了许多其他更有价值的东西。
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
好奇心比勇气更能战胜恐惧。
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
为什么当一个人建了一堵墙，另一个人马上就需要知道另一边是什么?