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单词 ingenuous
释义
ingenuous
adjective
formal
uk
/ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs/us
/ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs/
honest,sincere, andtrusting, sometimes in a way thatseemssilly:
天真的；胸无城府的
It has to be said it wasratheringenuous of him toaskacompletestrangerto takecareof hisluggage.他让一个完全陌生的人帮自己照看行李，这未免也太天真了。
Opposite
disingenuousformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Naive & trusting
  • an easy touchidiom
  • be easy game/meatidiom
  • be easy preyidiom
  • be wet behind the earsidiom
  • butter
  • butter wouldn't melt insomeone'smouthidiom
  • gull
  • idealistic
  • impressionable
  • ingenuously
  • naivety
  • prey
  • pushover
  • see things in black and whiteidiom
  • simple
  • sucker
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • wet
  • wide-eyed
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ingenuously
(Definition ofingenuousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofingenuous

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Yet they are also both ratheringenuous, if in different ways.
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Those contracted were depicted asingenuousand ignorant, constantly deceived by false promises.
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One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious andingenuousglosses on these three ideas.
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He was noingenuousliterary man unschooled in political realities.
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Finally, note itsingenuousexpression of "sad (ness)" that "marketing considerations" and "economic motivations" should "stand in the way of democratising knowledge production" (271)!
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However, wishful thinking and imperceptive, but nonethelessingenuous, hopes dominate what should have been meticulous scholarship.
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The formation is rare andingenuousand goes beyond the set rules of word-formation.
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Most of us will smile indulgently at a first-time opera-goer'singenuousconflation of character ('coughing her brains out') and voice ('keep singing').
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Each singer adopts the same smile, the sameingenuousexpression, the same carefully elevated chin.
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Ingenuousone seen in centre of church.
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Stiglitz (1974) was able to draw phase diagrams for a special depletable resource model with the help of someingenuousvariable transformations.
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They explain in a mostingenuousway that whenever they got a case of typhoid from an inoculated person they regarded it with suspicion.
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This is why there is no future iningenuousproposals for further talks with that régime as at present constituted.
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It seemed to me that that answer was whollyingenuous.
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He made aningenuousspeech, the substantial effect of which is that it is impossible to devise a scheme to exempt small holdings at all.
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