发音: [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs]
例句:
- Someone who is ingenuous shows a childlike innocence, trust, and openness.
- Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk seems to be asking a good-natured, almost ingenuous question in his new book: Where does creativity come from?
- On the other hand, it would be ingenuous to think that nothing at all is at risk when budgets shrink and productions de-corporatize.
- His face had an ingenuous, rather child-like expression, and it acquired a certain character of manliness, thanks solely to a dark red mustache, closely cropped.
- It’s a perilous undertaking to tell such a complicated story through the imagined magical thinking of childhood, and aside from some bright flashes of ingenuous insight, the telling offers more confusion than clarity.
解释:
- Ingenuous这个单词为形容词,其表示“showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness”这一含义,即“天真的/纯真的/直率的”,与innocent/naive/candid等单词构成近义词。
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具体使用场景如下:
- She always wears an ingenuous smile on her face.(她脸上总是挂着纯真的微笑。)
—News - I’m not so ingenuous as to believe everything he says.(我不会天真到相信他说的每一句话。)
—Culture - His face had an ingenuous, rather child-like expression, and it acquired a certain character of manliness, thanks solely to a dark red mustache, closely cropped.(他的脸有一种天真的,相当像孩子的表情,并且获得了某种男子气概的特征,这要归功于深红色的胡子,其被紧密地剪裁。)
—Arts - Her ingenuous charm stole hearts, and her career path was almost miraculously smooth in its transition from child to adolescent, and then to young woman.(她天真的魅力偷走了人心,她的职业道路几乎奇迹般地顺利地从儿童到青少年,再到年轻女性。)
—News