ingenuous

英 [?n'd?enj??s] 美[?n'd??nju?s]

TEM8IELTSGRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?ingenuously;

ingenuous 誠實(shí)的，真誠的
ingenious 天才的【u（you）誠實(shí)，i（I）天才】

ingenuous 天真無邪的，天真的，單純的

來自拉丁語ingenuus,天生的，出生高貴的，來自in-,進(jìn)入，使，內(nèi)在，-gen,生育，出生，詞源同gene,gentle.原指出生高貴的，后引申詞義真誠的，天真無邪的，但現(xiàn)在多用于貶義天真的，單純的。

ingenuous: ingenuous: [16] Etymologically, ingenuous means ‘inborn’. English acquired it from Latin ingenuus, which was composed of the prefix inand the element *gen-, denoting ‘production, birth’. This was originally used for ‘born in a particular place, native, not foreign’, but it soon began to take on connotations of ‘freeborn, not a slave’, and hence ‘of noble birth’.

Metaphorical transference to qualities thought characteristic of the nobility – uprightness, candour, straightforwardness, etc – soon followed, and that was the word’s semantic slant when English acquired it. By the 17th century, however, it had started to slide towards ‘a(chǎn)rtlessness, innocence’ (a sense reflected in ingénue, borrowed from French in the 19th century).
=> gene, general, generate, genital, ingénue
ingenuous (adj.): 1590s, "noble in nature," from Latin ingenuus "with the virtues of freeborn people, of noble character, frank, upright, candid," originally "native, freeborn," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + gen-, root of gignere "beget, produce" (see genus). Sense of "artless, innocent" is 1670s, via evolution from "high-minded" to "honorably open, straightforward," to "innocently frank." Related: Ingenuously; ingenuousness.

2. It is ingenuous to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.: 如果以為他的決定沒有金錢的因素，那就太天真了。

3. He found her charming, but perhaps just a shade too ingenuous for him.: 他覺得她很迷人，但對(duì)他來說可能又有點(diǎn)太過天真。

5. The ingenuous boy gave an account of his act, concealing nothing.: 那老實(shí)的男孩毫無隱諱地說明了他的行為.