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

• His apology was so obviously sincere and ingenuous that his opponent was disconcerted.
  他的道歉显然非常真诚坦率，以致他的对手觉得窘迫不安。
• 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。
• 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。
• She's an ingenuous country girl.
  她是个纯真的乡村姑娘。
• His confusion and his ingenuous air were new delights to Bertha.
  他的慌乱，他的憨厚的样子，重新又使伯莎感到高兴。
• 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。
• The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light;
  复辟时代的警察太天真，把巴黎的人民看得太“易与”了。
• With ingenuous sincerity, he captivated his audience.
  他以自己的率真迷住了观众。
• I find him rather ingenuous and charming.
  我觉得他相当坦率，相当可爱。
• He is too ingenuous in believing what people say.
  他太天真，轻信别人的话。