- 1天真的、太容易相信別人的（帶點「涉世未深」的批評，不是誇人單純可愛）
Naive describes a person who has not seen much of how and the world can be, and so trusts people too easily and expects things to turn out well. A naive person is not stupid — that is the key point. They may be very clever, but they are missing experience, so they believe what they are told and do not imagine that someone might be lying to them or using them. You can call a person naive (she was young and naive), or you can call their thinking naive (it was naive to think he would pay us back), and the second use is very common. Most of the time it is a criticism, though usually a gentle one, and it can even sound about a child or a young person. Said about an adult in a serious situation, it stings more — telling a colleague their plan is naive means it ignores obvious problems. There is a second, quite different use in art: naive art means art made in a deliberately simple, untrained style, and there it is not an insult at all. The word is spelled naive or naïve — the two dots are optional and both spellings are correct. It is said roughly ny-EEV, with the stress on the second half, which surprises many .
組成從法文 naïve（naïf 的陰性形）來，再往上是拉丁文 nātīvus「天生的、自然的」。也就是說，這個字原本的意思是「還保持著出生時那個樣子」——沒有被社會磨過。native（本地的、天生的）和它是同源的雙生字。
原始詞典資料5 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。
naiveadj/naɪˈiːv/
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Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
- Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried directly to reach and to persuade the individual voter.
- I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive
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Not having been exposed to something.
- Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]
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Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
- By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right.
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computingengineeringmathematicsIntuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
- We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.
naivenoun/naɪˈiːv/
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A naive person; a greenhorn.
- As a seasoned woman—of nineteen—I felt it was my place to tell each of these naïves that such plans were easier made than followed.
- In other words, they'd buy securities from these naives for 55 and sell them similar securities for 65. In plain English, they'd pay $550 per $1,000 bond and turn right around and sell them similar stuff for $650.
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