Примеры curiosity

• The ' contents ' runs to fifteen pages of subject headings: these include descriptions of localities, philological discussions, accounts of curiosities, geological analysis, and medicinal recipes.

• Appropriately enough, both the monstrosities and the curiosities, both the unhappy and the happy couples are put on display, in a kind of freak show or curio cabinet, respectively.

• They used, by means of skilfully putting these animals together, to make curiosities.

• To my mind it is the right place, for some of them are decided curiosities.

• There are other examples of irregularities and curiosities in the report.

• Let us have computers by all means but books too, and books not as curiosities from a former age.

• I am afraid that today most people still look upon museums as collections of curiosities and the staff as mainly people who look after them.

• We may have imported some goods, but in the main they were curiosities.