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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day":curio
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Mon Oct 4 17:49:27 1999), 转信
curio ("KYUR-ee-o") n
origin: 19th century abbreviation of curiosity.
1. A rare or unusual object or person.
"That Luxembourg be maintained as a nation, against
comon logic, to serve as an interesting political
curio."
-- One of "President Wilson's Fourteen Points" from
The Onion's, "Our Dumb Century".
"Beau Bridges, crowned with light, frizzy brown hair
and sometimes distractingly bushy brows, brings
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