ingenuous

英 [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs]

美 [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs]

adj.  单纯的; 天真的

GRETEM8

BNC.33365 / COCA.29301

牛津词典

adj.

• 单纯的；天真的
  honest, innocent and willing to trust people
  1. You're too ingenuous.
     你太老实了。
  2. an ingenuous smile
     纯真的微笑
  3. It is ingenuous to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.
     如果以为他的决定没有金钱的因素，那就太天真了。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 坦率的;真诚的;单纯的
  If you describe someone asingenuous, you mean that they are innocent, trusting, and honest.
  1. He seemed too ingenuous for a reporter...
     作为一名记者，他太老实了。
  2. With ingenuous sincerity, he captivated his audience.
     他以自己的率真迷住了观众。

英英释义

adj

• characterized by an inability to mask your feelings
  1. an ingenuous admission of responsibility
  Synonym:artless
• lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  1. a child's innocent stare
  2. his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
  Synonym:innocent

双语例句

• It was rather ingenuous of him to ask a stranger to look after his luggage.
  他让一个陌生人为自己照看行李，太老实了。
• A child's innocent stare; his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
  这孩子直率的目光；他无辜的辩解到如果他知道主教在里边的话他是不会烧教堂的。
• He found her charming, but perhaps just a shade too ingenuous for him
  他觉得她很迷人，但对他来说可能又有点太过天真。
• She's an ingenuous country girl.
  她是个纯真的乡村姑娘。
• There are occasions in the City as elsewhere, when ingenuous questions out of the mouths of babes and sucklings can confound the experts.
  在伦敦城或其他地方，都会有这样的事：出于天真孩童之口的问题会难住一些专家。
• Sally was so obviously sincere and ingenuous that everyone liked her.
  萨莉显然很真诚坦率，以致大家都喜欢她。
• She gave ingenuous answers to all of the strangers'questions.
  她诚实地回答了所有陌生人提出的问题。
• The ingenuous person had never thought of being suspicious of what others told him.
  天真的人从来不会怀疑他人告诉他的话。
• What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly closed again.
  他刚才见到的，不是一个孩子的那种天真单纯的眼光，而是一种奥秘莫测的深窟，稍稍张开了一线，接着又立即封闭了。
• Cyclical downturns are nothing new – the ingenuous and bold take advantage of such dips and seize their chance.
  周期性经济下滑算不上什么新鲜事，天生和大胆的企业家能够利用这种逆境，抓住自己的机会。