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Gullibility is the quality of believing people too quickly, so you are easy to trick. It is the noun for that softness of belief — not a disease, just a habit of taking a story as true before you check. Writers and teachers use it; in ordinary talk people more often say someone is gullible than talk about their gullibility, which sounds a little formal and a little sharp. Though actually the line with kindness is thin: a warm, open person can also be easy to fool. The word points at the danger, not at having a good heart. It is about scams, tall stories, and “too good to be true” promises — believing without a second look.
輕信;容易受騙
組成From gullible + -ity (the ending that turns an adjective into “the quality of being…”).
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- gulliblethe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
gullibilitynoun/ɡʌlɪˈbɪlɪti/
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The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
- What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。