英语小点心：Curiosity（好奇心）

Curiosity is often silly, and sometimes it is wrong. People with nothing better to do are full of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They want to know what they are eating, what they are bringing home, or why they have come home so late. Curiosity about these things is silly because they are trivial. It is no business of theirs what their neighbors do. Such curiosity is not only foolish, but it sometimes even causes harm. For it generally leads to gossip which often gives rise to scandal and hurts innocent people.

great things God has made and try to find out as much as they can about them. Columbus could never have found America had he not been curious. James Watt would not have made the steam engine without his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid. All the discoveries of science have been due to man's curiosity, but the curiosity is never about unimportant things which have little concern with the welfare of the public.

译文：

好奇心往往很愚蠢，有时候还会出错。无所事事的人会对邻居正在做什么充满好奇。他们想知道他们在吃什么，带了什么东西回家，或为什么他们那么晚才回家。对这些事物的好奇心非常愚蠢，因为这些事物根本微不足道。邻居做什么事情与他们无关。这样的好奇心不仅愚蠢，有时候甚至会造成伤害。事实上，这种好奇心往往造成闲言闲语，而这种闲言闲语常常会导致丑闻，也伤到无辜的人。

另一方面，有一种高尚的好奇心，就是智者的好奇心。他们对上帝所创造的所有伟大事物感到好奇，同时会尽可能地去了解这些伟大的事物。哥伦布要是当时没有好奇心的话就不会发现美洲新大陆。詹姆士‧瓦特当时要不是对茶壶盖子感到好奇的话就不会发明蒸汽引擎了。科学上的种种发现都是由于人类的好奇心所使然，但这种好奇心绝不是去关心那些与大众福祉无关的琐碎事情。

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