- 1不坦誠、裝無辜（帶一點心機的不老實；千萬別當成「機靈」的 ingenious）
If someone is disingenuous, they are not being straight with you. They may pretend they do not know something, or pretend their reasons are simpler and kinder than they really are. It is a slightly dishonest kind of — often polite on the surface, and often a little clever. Though actually, in formal English this is a strong thing to say about a person. You use it when you think they are playing a game with the truth, not merely shy or careful. “,” without dis-, means open and innocent; this word is the opposite of that openness. It is a grown-up, slightly adjective. You will meet it in essays, news, and argument more than in casual chat.
組成dis- (not / the opposite) + ingenuous (open, innocent, not hiding things)
同家族的字
- ingenuousthe opposite adjective: open and innocent
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disingenuousadj/ˌdɪ.sɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/
- 1
Not honourable; unworthy of honour.
- 2
Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
- I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
- 3
Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
- But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。