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 ingenuous nature was always trusting.
  他性格纯真，对人总是信而不疑。
• 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。
• 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。
• I wrote to him an ingenuous letter of acknowledgment, craving his forbearance a little longer.
  我给他写了一封十分坦率的感谢信，希望他能再度宽容一段时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With ingenuous sincerity, he captivated his audience.
  他以自己的率真迷住了观众。
• 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。
• An ingenuous girl [ smile]
  天真的女孩[微笑]