1 something that is interesting because it is rare and unusual -- 奇品，珍品；新奇罕有的事物
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.
