ingenuous

英 [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs]

美 [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs]

adj. 单纯的; 天真的

GRE TEM8

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

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。
He seemed too ingenuous for a reporter
作为一名记者，他太老实了。
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。
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。
It is not exactly clear how much of this letter we should take as entirely ingenuous, some of it might possibly be suspected of somewhat glossing over the truth.
我们并不能完全相信这封信上所说的内容，里面的一些内容很有可能是虚构的，也有一些是言过其实的。
She's an ingenuous country girl.
她是个纯真的乡村姑娘。
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。
He found her charming, but perhaps just a shade too ingenuous for him
他觉得她很迷人，但对他来说可能又有点太过天真。
She gave ingenuous answers to the strangers 'entire question.
对于这个陌生人提出的问题，她作出了坦率的回答。
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。