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单词 wide-eyed
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wide-eyed

1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone as wide-eyed, you mean that they are inexperienced and innocent, and may be easily impressed.
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.
...a wide-eyed boy ready to explore.
2. adjective
If you describe someone as wide-eyed, you mean that their eyes are more open than usual, especially because they are surprised or frightened.
She is wide-eyed with astonishment.
...an expression of wide-eyed amazement.
Wide-eyed is also an adverb.
Trevor was staring wide-eyed at me.
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wide-eyed in British English

adjective
innocent or credulous

wide-eyed in American English

(ˈwaɪdˌaɪd)
adjective
1. 
with the eyes opened widely, as because of surprise or fear
2. 
naive or unsophisticated

Examples of 'wide-eyed' in a sentence
wide-eyed

When do they lose this wide-eyed innocence?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The tone of wide-eyed innocence is either refreshing or deeply cynical.
The Sun (2014)
The government is all wide-eyed innocence when asked about this.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Do wide-eyed young men still exist?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Yet United are hardly wide-eyed innocents.
The Sun (2012)

In other languages
wide-eyed

British English: wide-eyed ADJECTIVE
If you describe someone as wide-eyed, you mean that they are inexperienced and innocent, and may be easily impressed.
This generation has lost a lot of its wide-eyed innocence.
  • American English: wide-eyed
  • Brazilian Portuguese: ingênuo
  • Chinese: 朴实的
  • European Spanish: ingenuo
  • French: naïf
  • German: naiv
  • Italian: ingenuo
  • Japanese: 世間知らずの
  • Korean: 눈이 휘둥그래진
  • European Portuguese: ingénuo
  • Latin American Spanish: ingenuo
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