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

• 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。
• His ingenuous nature was always trusting.
  他性格纯真，对人总是信而不疑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He seemed too ingenuous for a reporter
  作为一名记者，他太老实了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。