英:['əʊvə'kjʊərɪəs]
美:['oʊvə'kjʊrɪrs]
英:['əʊvə'kjʊərɪəs]
美:['oʊvə'kjʊrɪrs]
adjective
obsolete too finicky or fastidious
too inquisitive
1 People in East Africa have long known about the crested rat’s poisonous punch, which has felled many an overcurious dog.
2 Not a very lucid explanation; but George Prattleton was tired and cross, and not really overcurious.
3 He recalled the slip of white paper in his pocket, questioning if he would be able to finger it, to scratch upon it those vital invisible directions before these sharp and overcurious eyes.
4 But she was almost pathetically easy to put off, so afraid she was of being overcurious.
5 People had been known to pry into her religion; and on these Patsy smiled indulgently as one does sometimes on overcurious children.
6 Never discourteous and often too sympathetic, he was so overcurious as to be what sailors describe as "In everybody's mess and nobody's watch."
7 Neither, in general, are women overcurious to enquire whether the strength of character.
8 I do not here allude to hard study, but to overcurious scanning of the realities of this life, and the still greater realities and more momentous possibilities of the world to come.
9 The partners were too happy at having her with them to be overcurious concerning her reasons for coming.
10 Two men on listening-post had been shot; and so had an overcurious sentry who peeped just an inch too far above a parapet.
11 There were several dishes quaintly decorated, and which had evidently something traditional in their embellishments, but about which, as I did not like to appear overcurious, I asked no questions.
12 Some students are overcurious.
有些学生过分好奇多问.