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

• 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。
• In addition, this book packaging ingenuous structure is unique, modelling xianlinghe set to become, the more make this book reading, appreciation and collection in one of the rare art.
  此外，本书包装结构精巧独特，造型古朴典雅，更使本书成为集阅读、欣赏和珍藏于一体的珍贵艺术品。
• To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame.
  隐瞒天真的羞愧，恬不红脸；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His ingenuous nature was always trusting.
  他性格纯真，对人总是信而不疑。
• 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。
• 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。