incredulous

英语

词源

借自拉丁语 incrēdulus (“不相信的”)。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ɪnˈkɹɛdjʊləs/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˌɪn.ˈkɹɛ.d͡ʒə.ləs/

形容词

incredulous (比较级 more incredulous，最高级 most incredulous)

1. 心有疑虑的，表示怀疑的，无法相信的 （自16世纪）
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   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.

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   • 2009年3月18日, Reuters, “Sun Micro Troops Fearful, Incredulous About IBM”, 出自 Wired.com‎^[1]，于30 June 2013归档自原页面:

     Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.

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2. (多已弃用，现已仅非标准) 难以置信的 （自17世纪）
   • c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期）, 威廉·莎士比亚, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版于 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […] 。

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   • 1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337,^[2] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law,^[3] Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,

     Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

衍生词汇

• incredulosity
• incredulously

相关词汇

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