[每日] curio (n) 古董
Word of the Day (Thursday December 4, 2008)
curio \KYOOR-ee-oh\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/93582
a valued, novel object; an object valued as a curiosity, often
a collectible
It is tempting to think of [it] not as a novel but as a
glittering artifact, something an acquisitive traveler might
discover in a musty Venetian curio shop.
-- David Willis McCullough, review of The Palace, by Lisa St.
Aubin de Teran, New York Times, 8/1/1999
Her latest addition, a fake yellow canary that she affixed to
the front door, simply can't be ignored. With any luck, the cat
will soon mistake the curio for a real bird and that will be
the end of it.
-- Ada Brunstein, The House of No Personal Pronouns, New York
Times, 7/22/2007
Tensions in his parents' home in New York and summer visits to
his Boston grandfather left impressions that became, over time,
fragmentary memories tinged with sadness-as when he recalls, in
Redburn, the melancholy longing provoked by the miniature glass
ship displayed in his grandfather's curio case.
-- Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His Life and Work
by 1851, literally, "piece of bric-a-brac or art object from the
far East," a shortened form of curiosity
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