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。
• Brent's wide ingenuous face was puzzled and mildly indignant.
  布伦特那张老实巴交的宽脸上呈现迷惑神情。
• It is not exactly clear how much of this letter we should take as entirely ingenuous, some of it might possibly be suspected of somewhat glossing over the truth.
  我们并不能完全相信这封信上所说的内容，里面的一些内容很有可能是虚构的，也有一些是言过其实的。
• An ingenuous girl [ smile]
  天真的女孩[微笑]
• With ingenuous sincerity, he captivated his audience.
  他以自己的率真迷住了观众。
• He seemed too ingenuous for a reporter
  作为一名记者，他太老实了。
• He is too ingenuous in believing what people say.
  他太天真，轻信别人的话。
• I find him rather ingenuous and charming.
  我觉得他相当坦率，相当可爱。
• 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。
• 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。