英:[ɪn'dʒenjʊəslɪ]
美:[ɪn'dʒenjʊrslɪ]
英:[ɪn'dʒenjʊəslɪ]
美:[ɪn'dʒenjʊrslɪ]
词根:ingenuous
adj.ingenuous 天真的;坦白的;正直的;朴实的
n.ingenuousness 率直;正直;老实
adjective (1)
showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
her ingenuous thirst for experience—Christopher Rawson
lacking craft or subtlety
ingenuous in their brutality
obsolete noble, honorable
adjective (2)
ingenious
Adjective (1) Latin ingenuus native, freeborn, from in- + gignere to beget — more at kin Adjective (2) by alteration
The first known use of ingenuous was in 1588
ingloriousadjective
not glorious : not bringing honor or glory
bringing disgrace : shameful
inglorious defeat
inglenooknoun
a corner by the fire or chimney
ingestverb
to take in for or as if for digestion
ingestverb
to take in for or as if for digestion
ingestverb
to take in for or as if for digestion
ingenuousadjective
showing innocent or childlike simplicity and straightforwardness
ingenuousadjective
showing innocent or childlike simplicity and straightforwardness
1 "Perhaps," said Margaret ingenuously, "if I had gone only to look on, I should have thought it pleasant too; but I did not suppose one went to a party for that."
2 Then, Trump apologists ingenuously ask, “What about Obama? Wasn’t he Deporter-in-Chief?”
3 And not waiting for his answer, added ingenuously: "You were not a thief!"
4 As he halted, her big eyes were upraised, and her look travelled ingenuously from his sunlit hair over his burned face down to his roughly sandalled feet.
5 Really he is my father’s cousin—but I’ve always called him ‘Uncle,’” he added ingenuously.
6 “I can see it’s true by the way you say that,” his friend ingenuously stated.
7 Timberlake’s Berkey, unencumbered by neuroses about authenticity and craft and gazing ingenuously at the world around him, looks destined for mainstream success.
8 The professor was ingenuously sincere in his narrative.
9 "He only brings consolation into households," she explained ingenuously.
10 "To all of us," Horner ingenuously confessed, "it is only matter of temporary amusement and subordinate occupation."
11 Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary, and unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry.
12 Does that apply also," she asked, looking at him ingenuously, "to the pistols you carry, M. des Voeux?
13 All Israelis, so the argument goes, are implicated in the travesty, which the United States has ingenuously nursed along because of a growing Israel lobby that cynically exploits the memory and legacy of the Holocaust.
14 If the Egyptians were accustomed to looking at things ingenuously with both eyes at once, the construction of perspective pictures in space could not be familiar to them.
15 In photographs, surrounded by icons of long hair and cool demeanour, he is the ingenuously grinning one with side-parting and thick-framed spectacles.
16 Voldemort stared at him ingenuously. The man MUST have lost his marbles.
魔王愕然向对方望过去. 这家伙绝对疯了.
17 Emmeline hesitated, then answered ingenuously, "We are so very, very happy together, that I do not feel quite sure that I am glad my cousins are going to live with us."
18 "I'm such an ignoramus that I'm afraid I don't even know with any precision what a fugue of Bach's is!" said Algernon, ingenuously.
19 Never, never more can I be his, for he has not dealt ingenuously with me, but altogether recklessly, and he knows it too.
20 "I could not plight my troth to the King of Portugal, or to Monsieur de Guienne, or to any that they proposed to me, for my future lord," answered Isabella, ingenuously.
1 率直
spadish open easy round straight flat transparent straightforward outright up-front expansive downright pointed Frank candid plump childlike unequivocal flat-out burly foursquare point-blank unreserved unvarnished heart-to-heart ingenuous straight-out shirt-sleeve plain frankly openly plainly candidly unreservedly straightforwards freedom candor directness earthiness straightness candour bluntness plain dealing open mind straight out open heart man to man