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not having enough knowledge, good judgement or experience of life and too 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
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc1, Personal qualitiesc1He regarded the move as politically naive. 他认为这一举措在政治上很幼稚。 He made some particularly naive remarks. 他发表了一些特别幼稚的评论。 It would be naive of us to think that football is only a game. 我们要是以为足球只是一种游戏,那就太天真了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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- call somebody naive
- (approving)
(of people and their behaviour )人及其行为 innocent and simple synonym artless compare sophisticated天真的;率直的 - (specialist)
(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)
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Latin nativus ‘native, natural’.