天真無邪：naive的用法和辨析

Wordless purity naive， often can Move more than speak。

——Shakespeare

無言的純潔的天真，往往比說話更能打動人心。

——莎士比亞

一、下面我們來看看naive有幾種含義 

adj.

1.天真的 innocent

Modern readers would find such naive solutions totally unacceptable.

現代讀者會覺得這種天真的結局完全無法接受。

2.幼稚的；輕信的 lacking experience of life, knowledge or good judgement and willing to believe that people always tell you the truth

The politician made a naive decision.

這個政治家做了一個幼稚的決定。

n.

天真的人；幼稚輕信的人 people with innocent heart and easy to believe

He is such a naive.

他真是個天真的人。

二、學會naive了嗎？來做個填詞遊戲吧

I knew it was healthy to question and doubt, at least until my _____ subsided and I had the wisdom to see on my own.

我承認善於質疑是好的，至少當我的幼稚褪去，我還有理智可以繼續上路。