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单词 naïf
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Definition of naïf in English:

naïf

adjective nɑːˈiːfnʌɪˈiːf
  • Naive or ingenuous.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As for the styles in which the popular works are executed, Castro has seen a move toward abstracts, while Delacroix, by contrast, has seen increased interest in figurative and naif works.
    • It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
    • For example, consider a client who has shown interest in naif prints.
    • He is a naif artist who paints a magical world.
    • The internationally renowned French painter is a master of the naif tradition and one of the most popular artists working today.
noun nɑːˈiːfnʌɪˈiːf
  • A naive or ingenuous person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The naif became the world's most famous exponent of bohemian life and, of course, a star in Parisian gay society.
    • Thus do an insecure, reclusive dictator and an insecure, impulsive foreign affairs naif hold the peace of the world in their hands.
    • Most Americans, if they thought about her at all, considered her a naif who had chosen the wrong side and paid, tragically, with her life.
    • When investigators tracked down Tom's parents in California, producers had to rewrite the promotional copy for the show so it wouldn't make them look like such naifs.
    • What were nothing more than the words of a teenage naif at a press conference soon turned into a media-generated pseudo-duel.
    • For every person such as TS Eliot, who said ‘it is impossible to regard him as a naif, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated’, there were countless others who thought him plain crazy.
    • And I don't know if this naif is supposed to be a journalism major - but I certainly hope not.
    • In any case, now a couple weeks later I'm nothing like the commercial real estate naif I was then.
    • But we who were shocked turn out to be naifs, people who don't understand that the business of art is, well, business.
    • Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives.
    • Alas, she seems as much a naif as an innocent.
    • He is younger than even me, but he's hardly a naif about global events.
    • He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him.
    • It's she who, having abused that privilege to abet terrorist acts, should be under attack by the naifs who have come to her defense.
    • She can go from naif to minx in 60 seconds and seduce us at every stage.
    • Any innocent product that becomes suddenly genocidal in the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous naif.
    • I'd rather hang out with the naifs and unsophisticates, I think, who appreciate the new and unusual, and whose bar for those things hasn't gotten to be ridiculously high.
    • But she is no naif, and there is, after all, a journalist to charm.

Origin

French (see naive).

 
 

Definition of naïf in US English:

naïf

adjective
  • Naive or ingenuous.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is a naif artist who paints a magical world.
    • The internationally renowned French painter is a master of the naif tradition and one of the most popular artists working today.
    • It is also a thing of beauty, with typography that's clever without being tricksy, saliva-inducing photography and cute little naif drawings.
    • For example, consider a client who has shown interest in naif prints.
    • As for the styles in which the popular works are executed, Castro has seen a move toward abstracts, while Delacroix, by contrast, has seen increased interest in figurative and naif works.
noun
  • A naive or ingenuous person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's she who, having abused that privilege to abet terrorist acts, should be under attack by the naifs who have come to her defense.
    • He is younger than even me, but he's hardly a naif about global events.
    • I'd rather hang out with the naifs and unsophisticates, I think, who appreciate the new and unusual, and whose bar for those things hasn't gotten to be ridiculously high.
    • Alas, she seems as much a naif as an innocent.
    • He's no naif, living in a fantasy world, but an adroit political player, using an image of weirdness to protect him.
    • Any innocent product that becomes suddenly genocidal in the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous naif.
    • What were nothing more than the words of a teenage naif at a press conference soon turned into a media-generated pseudo-duel.
    • When investigators tracked down Tom's parents in California, producers had to rewrite the promotional copy for the show so it wouldn't make them look like such naifs.
    • The naif became the world's most famous exponent of bohemian life and, of course, a star in Parisian gay society.
    • In any case, now a couple weeks later I'm nothing like the commercial real estate naif I was then.
    • But she is no naif, and there is, after all, a journalist to charm.
    • But we who were shocked turn out to be naifs, people who don't understand that the business of art is, well, business.
    • For every person such as TS Eliot, who said ‘it is impossible to regard him as a naif, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated’, there were countless others who thought him plain crazy.
    • Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives.
    • Thus do an insecure, reclusive dictator and an insecure, impulsive foreign affairs naif hold the peace of the world in their hands.
    • She can go from naif to minx in 60 seconds and seduce us at every stage.
    • Most Americans, if they thought about her at all, considered her a naif who had chosen the wrong side and paid, tragically, with her life.
    • And I don't know if this naif is supposed to be a journalism major - but I certainly hope not.

Origin

French (see naive).

 
 
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