| 单词 | unwary |
| 释义 | unwary (once / 4291 pages) adj Someone who's unwary isn't careful — in fact, an unwary person might be a little bit reckless. When your unwary cousin travels to China, he might end up being overcharged for a rickshaw ride. When you don't know the potential dangers or challenges that lie in front of you, you're unwary. While unwary people aren't overly suspicious or cautious, they run the risk of being taken advantage of or even getting hurt. To be wary is to be very watchful or cautious — it comes from the Old English root wær, "prudent, aware, or alert," and unwary combines it with un, or "not." WORD FAMILYunwary: unwarily, unwariness+/unwariness: unwarinesses/wary: unwary, warier, wariest, warily, wariness USAGE EXAMPLESIn fact the play, focused as it is on nothing but talk, is so intrinsically theatrical that the material lays traps for the unwary. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) Looming icebergs can fatally wound an unwary or unarmored vessel. Slate(Nov 16, 2016) At the Caracas airport, unwary travellers are robbed, and worse, by taxi-drivers. The New Yorker(Nov 06, 2016) adj not alert to danger or deception the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell Syn|Ant gullible easily tricked because of being too trusting unguardeddisplaying or feeling no wariness wary marked by keen caution and watchful prudence on guard, on one's guard, on your guard, upon one's guardvigilant shywary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things |
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