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naively

/nah-eev/US // nɑˈiv //UK // (naɪˈiːv) //

天真地,天真地认为,天真,天真无邪地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
    • : having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous: She's so naive she believes everything she reads. He has a very naive attitude toward politics.
    • : having or marked by a simple, unaffectedly direct style reflecting little or no formal training or technique:valuable naive 19th-century American portrait paintings.
    • : not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.

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Examples

  • The report also adds that John Paul was naive to believe McCarrick’s handwritten denail.

  • This indicates that a naive endorsement of stoic ideology might be detrimental to individuals’ wellbeing independent of the specific aspect.

  • I’m not so naive to think that nobody might ever hurt anybody again.

  • Subjected to the right kinds of patterns, naive matter can exhibit computing and learning behaviors.

  • Long nightmare Jefferson’s hope to quickly reverse his demise was naive.

  • Whether it did so naively or cynically, I honestly do not know.

  • Anyone who denies it is being naively or intentionally delusional.

  • Then you would have to remember that he has been wandering into controversies, sometimes naively, since his earliest days.

  • He also naively insisted this whole controversy has gotten a little out of hand.

  • I was naively shocked at first and deleted any such message.

  • "More bravely than others is saying too much," naively interposed the baker.

  • For himself, Savary naively declared that much of his own participation in the subsequent events was mere accident.

  • "Because I've been out," she said naively and laughed again.

  • They knew how to live, and they enjoyed every process and aspect of their lives, just as children do, naively and simply.

  • Brandilancia, fancying that the little fan had fallen from the hand of Marie de' Medici by accident, naively offered to return it.