单词 | naive |
释义 | naive (naɪiːv , US nɑː- ) also naïve adjective [ADJECTIVE to-infinitive] If you describe someone as naive, you think they lack experience and so expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind. It's naive to think that teachers are always tolerant. I must have been naive to think we would get my parents' blessing. ...naive idealists. Their view was that he had been politically naive. naively adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] ...naively assuming that they would be protected by local development plans. I thought, naively, that this would be a nine-to-five job. naivety (naɪiːvɪti ) uncountable noun I was alarmed by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs. Synonyms: gullibility, innocence, simplicity, inexperience Synonyms: gullibility, openness, candour, frankness Collocations: naive view A naive view that authoritarian regimes are impermanent and unreliable allies now looks less naive. Times, Sunday Times They perhaps subscribe to the naive view that teachers should know whereof they teach. Times, Sunday Times He takes on a very naive view of what the realities of war are actually like. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Themes of his stories of this type were a possible dead end of mankind's science and technology, or the confrontation of a naive view of progress with alien civilizations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And some of his policy prescriptions are politically naive. Times, Sunday Times For all her subtlety and understanding, she was really always an outsider and, inevitably, politically naive. Times, Sunday Times But even those who judged her politically naive could not dispute her sincerity. Times, Sunday Times He was, to put it kindly, politically naive. Times, Sunday Times This was not necessarily a more naturally obedient or politically naive country. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 天真的 Japanese: うぶな |
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