ingenue
名词 n.
英 /ˌænʒeɪˈnjuː/
美 /ˈɑnʒənu/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
— Near-synonym: girl next door
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A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
— The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.
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Misspelling of ingenu.
— Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them.
词源
Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).
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