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单词 unwary
释义
unwary
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈweə.ri/us
/ʌnˈwer.i/
notconsciousof orcarefulaboutpossiblerisksanddangers:
不警惕的，不警觉的；不设防的
Hesoldfakeinsurancepoliciesto unwarycustomers.他向未提防的顾客出售假保险。
Arangeoftaxandtechnicalissuescantripuptheunwary(= unwarypeople).一系列的税务和技术问题会使粗心大意的人出错。
Synonym
unsuspecting
Opposites
leeryinformal
suspicious(DOUBT)
wary
Compare
gullible
naivemainlydisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not paying attention
  • absent
  • absent-minded
  • absent-mindedly
  • absent-mindedness
  • absently
  • anyhow
  • dreamily
  • dreamy
  • drop/loweryourguardidiom
  • faraway
  • glazed
  • laxity
  • laxly
  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • merrily
  • misfocus
  • sideline
  • unguarded
  • unmindful
  • zone out
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(Definition ofunwaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunwary

unwary
Theunwarywill be lulled into a false sense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
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Even today, the understanding of intellectual property protection in different countries, or groups of countries, is a minefield for theunwaryor ill-infor med.
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It is the very choice of words that contemporaries used to describe church building which can lead theunwaryhistorian astray.
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That said, there remain some unfortunate pitfalls forunwaryreaders which might easily have been avoided.
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I say 'unwary' because the examples given make the true meaning clear enough; but not everyone takes notice of examples.
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With equal artifice he often repeats himself and, furthermore, by applying a certain varnish he succeeds in making the old seem new, at least tounwaryeyes.
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Algebra exposed theunwaryto the danger of allowing meaningless interpretations, like that of negative numbers, to creep in.
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To be fair, this may be just a citation error, but the general tendency to gloss over problematic aspects of the theory are disconcerting, and misleading to theunwaryreader.
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A programming environment should limit the language to the pieces relevant for each stage of a course rather than leaving the entire language available to trapunwarystudents.
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They're full of traps for theunwary.
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It is all to easy forunwaryscholars to fall into the trap of listing instances of 'transposed inversion chords' or 'turning chords' or 'asymmetrical enlargement'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many personal tragedies occur and many loan sharks are waiting to trap the unwise and theunwarywho have taken on far too much debt.
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The desert can be a harsh environment to theunwaryand those not used to operating in it or over it.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It may be that one is used for the other, and one is substituted for the other for the purpose of deluding theunwarycustomer.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Throughout that globe there are some very risky places, and some of the risk for theunwaryor the unprotected is caused by disease.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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