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Naive I Naivety Naɪˈiːv Naɪˈiːvəti People Naively Experience

The adjective "naive" describes someone lacking life experience, knowledge, or judgment, and thus trusting too easily. It can also refer to an art style that is deliberately simple and childlike.

英语 "naive" 形容词表示某人缺乏生活经验、知识或判断力,容易相信别人;它也可指艺术风格的简单和幼稚。

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/naɪi͟ːv, AM nɑː-/
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]天真的;幼稚的 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.
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  • It's naive to think that teachers are always tolerant...

    认为老师们总那么宽容是幼稚的。

  • I must have been naive to think we would get my parents' blessing.

    我一定太天真了,竟认为我们会得到我父母的祝福。

  • ...naive idealists...

    天真的理想主义者

  • Their view was that he had been politically naive.

    他们认为他在政治上一直很幼稚。

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  • ...naively applying Western solutions to Eastern problems...

    幼稚地利用西方的办法解决东方的问题

  • I thought, naively, that this would be a nine-to-five job.

    我天真地以为这是份朝九晚五的工作。

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  • I was alarmed by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs.

    他对国际事务缺乏经验且无知,这很让我吃惊。


Oxford naive ( also naïve ) / naɪˈiːv ; NAmE naɪˈiːv / adjective 1 ( disapproving) lacking experience of life, knowledge or good judgement and willing to believe that people always tell you the truth 缺乏经验的;幼稚的;无知的;轻信的 to be politically naive 对政治一无所知 I can't believe you were so naive as to trust him! 真是难以相信你会幼稚到信任他! a naive question 无知的问题 2 ( approving) (of people and their behaviour 人及其行为 ) innocent and simple 天真的;率直的 SYN
artless
Their approach to life is refreshingly naive. 他们对待生活的态度天真率直,令人耳目一新。 compare
sophisticated
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3 ( technical 术语 ) (of art 艺术 ) in a style which is deliberately very simple, often uses bright colours and is similar to that produced by a child 稚拙派的(简单质朴,色彩明快) naive·ly / ; NAmE / ( also naïve·ly ) adverb I naively assumed that I would be paid for the work. 我天真地以为这活儿是有报酬的。 naiv·ety ( also naïv·ety ) / naɪˈiːvəti ; NAmE naɪˈiːvəti / noun [uncountable ] They laughed at the naivety of his suggestion. 他们嘲笑他提的建议太幼稚。 She has lost none of her naivety. 她丝毫没有失去那份天真烂漫。 naivety naiveties
naive / naɪˈiːv ; NAmE naɪˈiːv / naive·ly / ; NAmE / naiv·ety / naɪˈiːvəti ; NAmE naɪˈiːvəti /
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naivena‧ive /naɪˈiːv/ ●○○ adjective
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not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happeninnocent:  a naive young girl Jim can be so naive sometimes.it is naive to think/suppose/assume etc It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.naively adverb:  I had naively imagined that he was in love with me.naivety /naɪˈiːvəti/ (also naiveté /naɪˈiːvəteɪ/) noun [uncountable]:  dangerous political naivety
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