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If you are gullible, you believe what people tell you too easily, so you are easy to trick. It is a common word, a little teasing and a little critical — parents, teachers, and news writers all use it. A gullible person may click a fake message, buy a deal that is “too good,” or swallow a wild story. It does not simply mean stupid. Though actually a clever person can still be gullible in one corner of life, like money or love, because wanting something to be true makes checking feel cold. The opposite move is to pause and ask, “How do we know?” Informal: “Don’t be so gullible.”
好騙的；輕信的
組成Origin uncertain. Either from older gull, “to trick,” plus -ible (“able to be…”), or from an old word for a young bird — and so for a naive person. Scholars do not agree, so both should stay in the “perhaps” box.
同家族的字
- gullibilitythe noun: the quality of being gullible
原始詞典資料2 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。
gullibleadj/ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/
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Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
- Andrew is so gullible, the way he still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman at the age of fourteen.
gulliblenoun/ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/
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A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked.
- They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
- Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.
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。