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 his ingenuous smile that won Deborah's heart.
  是他率直的微笑赢得了黛博拉的芳心。
• 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。
• But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.
  但是，她固然失往了憨稚无知的神态，却赢回了端庄凝重的魅力。
• 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。
• The ingenuous boy gave an account of his act, concealing nothing.
  那老实的男孩毫无隐讳地说明了他的行为。
• To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame.
  隐瞒天真的羞愧，恬不红脸；
• An ingenuous girl [ smile]
  天真的女孩[微笑]
• She gave ingenuous answers to the strangers 'entire question.
  对于这个陌生人提出的问题，她作出了坦率的回答。
• 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。
• Call it ingenuous or evil genius, but the Iraqis deliberately designed their chemical weapons programs to be inspected.
  称这为坦白或魔鬼天才，伊拉克有意设计其化学武器计划以应付核查。