babe in the woods 的定义
- An innocent or very naive person who is apt to be duped or victimized, as in She was a babe in the woods where the stock market was concerned. The term originated in a popular ballad of 1595, “The Children in the Wood,” about two young orphans who are abandoned in a forest and die.
babe in the woods 近义词
dupable person
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- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.
- The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.
- After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father.
- Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!