| 单词 | light-eared |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslight-eared light-eared adj. now rare ready or willing to listen; credulous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [adjective] lightc1475 light-eareda1530 credulous1567 over-credulous1579 credulent1584 well-believing1620 sequacious1653 implicit1694 ultrafidiana1849 lame1942 a1530 T. Lupset Exhort. to Yonge Men (1535) f. 28 Take hede my good Withipoll of your passion toward wrath, ire, & anger... Be not light ered in hering a word of displesure. c1547 Duke of Somerset Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 736/2 When one is ouer light eared, the one way, and deafe on the other side. 1976 T. S. Lim Destination Singapore ii. ii.13 The Japanese rulers..having contracted a phobia of sabotage, had become light-eared and gullible. < as lemmas |
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