curio
curio — 名詞
- curiosingular
- curiosplural
1. a small, unusual item — often old or from a faraway place — that people enjoy lo
古玩；珍品
小巧、罕見或來自異地的收藏小物。
a small, unusual item — often old or from a faraway place — that people enjoy looking at or like to collect.
Manuela kept a tiny jade frog on her desk as a curio from her grandmother.
Manuela 把一隻小玉蛙擺在桌上，當作奶奶留下的古玩。
countable noun: a curio from [origin]
The antique shop on the corner sold old coins, painted fans, and other curios.
街角的古董店賣著舊錢幣、彩繪扇子，還有其他珍奇小物。
plural use: curios as items in a collection
Dylan bought a wooden mask in Lisbon as a curio to remember the trip.
Dylan 在里斯本買了一個木雕面具，當作旅行紀念的古玩。
collocation: a curio (from a place / as a souvenir)
Visitors loved the glass cabinet full of curios at the small village museum.
在小村莊的博物館裡，遊客很喜歡那個擺滿古玩的玻璃櫃。
typical context: museum / cabinet of curios
On the dusty top shelf, Iris found an ivory chess piece and several other curios.
在那層滿是灰塵的高架上，Iris 找到了一顆象牙棋子和幾件其他的珍奇小物。
- a curio from
- shelf of curios
- cabinet of curios
- collect curios
- knick-knack
more informal; usually decorative trinkets with less emphasis on rarity
- trinket
small ornament, often cheap; lacks the rarity nuance of curio
- novelty
any unusual item; broader and less tied to collecting
- collectible
modern, marketed item designed to be collected; curio is more incidental
用法筆記
Object is typically small, portable, and valued for novelty or origin rather than practical use. Often appears in the plural (curios) when describing a collection or shop stock.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- curio shop
- curio cabinet
- curio collection
常用片語
- a cabinet of curios
- a shelf of curios
介系詞搭配
- curio from