gullible
英語[编辑]
詞源[编辑]
gull + -ible 或中古英語 gull (“新孵出的小鳥”, 方言)，可能來自古諾爾斯語 gulr，來自其羽絨的色彩。[1]
發音[编辑]
形容詞[编辑]
gullible (比較級 more gullible, 最高級 most gullible)
- 容易上當的，易受欺騙的，輕信的。
- Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.
- 安德魯真好騙，他都十四歲了，還在相信聖誕老公公、復活節兔子、牙仙子和睡魔。
- 近義詞： fleeceable、green、naif、naive；亦參見Thesaurus:gullible
衍生詞彙[编辑]
名詞[编辑]
gullible (複數 gullibles)
- 容易上當的、易受欺騙的人，好騙的人。
- 1991 年，蓋安道，《Babouk: Voices of Resistance》(《巴布克：抵抗之聲》，第 70 頁)
- They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
- 他們向這些好騙的人描繪了作為西班牙人的僕人會享受到的恐怖樂趣。但是這種伎倆不能持續，因為古巴離聖多明戈太近了，真實情況的消息穿過向風海峽洩露並四處散布。
- They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
- 1991 年，蓋安道，《Babouk: Voices of Resistance》(《巴布克：抵抗之聲》，第 70 頁)