out of interest

基本解释

The job was not very well paid. She took it just out of interest.
这份工作报酬并不丰厚，她就是出于兴趣才接下这份工作的。
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Out of interest, let’s just take a look at what the situation is like in liberal parts of Britain, and what kind of pressure gay people face in America.
出于兴趣，让我们一起来看看在英国比较子有的地区人们如何看待同性恋问题，同时了解一下，在美国同性恋们又要面临怎样的压力。
Brindley had begun on his own account, out of interest, to survey the waterways that he traveled as he went about his engineering projects for mills and mines.
布林斯雷在为他的磨坊和矿井建筑工程到处奔走的时候，出于自愿和兴趣，对沿途经过的河道进行了勘察。

Paying out lots of cash, unless you really have to, is not in the interest of the firm and is not in the interest of the public."
Unfortunately, I've never taken a course in it, but I've started reading it lately out of just my broad intellectual interest.
遗憾的是,我从未上过有机化学课,但我最近开始读一些相关的书,这是我广泛爱好中的一种
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Why don't I lend some of it out and I can earn interest on the loan and make money.
为什么我不贷一部分出去呢,这样我就可以通过贷款赚利息了
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Out of interest the spread traded at 179 basis points as recently as six months ago.
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